The general public is invited to tomorrow's #EnvironmentalJustice plenary panel featuring Nalleli Cobo (People Not Pozos), Jeffrey Linn @ConspiracyOfCartographers, and Jessica Henson (Olin Studio), moderated by Juan De Lara. We had a lot of flux with our programming but happy to share this.
WOW! for this year's Air Quality Awareness Week, EPA showcased my graphic novel series: The Environmental Justice Chronicles! How cool is that??? FYI: The comic books are available for free download for any non-profit or educational use. Link in comments #climatejustice #environmentaljustice #environmentaleducation #comics#graphicnovel #youth
"The Yale School of the Environment's Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Sustainability Initiative (JEDSI) has launched a database detailing the careers and personal stories of more than 200 environmental professionals of color in the United States. The database... features professionals in the energy, Indigenous land rights, conservation, climate, and environmental justice fields."
Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, often touted as his signature climate achievement, not only falls short but also puts Black communities back in the targets of developers and highway building. Roughly half of the projects implemented so far has been allocated to highway expansion.
"Nationwide, the highway investment will practically wipe out any positive climate benefits from other spending priorities. The simple result, the report found, is that the U.S. will generate more emissions from transportation, already its largest source of planet-heating gases, than if the bill hadn’t ever passed. By 2040, the pollution created from these projects will be equivalent to running 48 coal-fired power plants a year.
The spending so far has created a 'climate time bomb' that will also perpetuate the displacement of Black communities, the report concluded."
@Rbratspies The only way to truly reconnect the neighborhoods and get #EnvironmentalJustice is to tear down the BQE. Everything else is just pretending.
"When you look at other places with higher incomes and fewer people of color, kids don’t have those issues growing up. That’s what got me into environmental justice: the fact that my family was being hit so hard by pollution, and there was something that I could do about it."
--MONTSERRAT HIDALGO
Activist, Gold Award Girl Scout, co-founder of Youth Action Club
"Experts say industry can reduce its soot output by installing pollution-control technologies, such as scrubbers at power plants. The EPA projects that compliance with the stronger soot rule could cost industry up to $590 million annually in 2032, although it could save up to $46 billion in health-care costs."
When you put numbers to the tiny cost to industry & massive cost to health (of pollution) it's even more outrageous.
“Colorado issued a $10.5 million penalty on the Suncor refinery in Commerce City over three years of air pollution violations, calling it the largest-ever action against a single facility, and also settled a lawsuit with an agreement to double monitoring of air pollution at the fenceline of the troubled fuel plant.
"The violence inflicted on Palestinians by an Israel backed so strikingly by President Biden and his foreign policy team is unlike anything we had previously witnessed in more or less real-time in the media and on social media. Gaza, its people, and the lands that have sustained them for centuries are being desecrated and transformed into an all too unlivable hellscape, the impact of which will be felt — it’s a guarantee — for generations to come."
Following the Civil Rights Movement, Southern power companies funneled millions of dollars to Black leaders and organizations, fostering seemingly loyal industry advocates but sparking questions about financial influence and compromised social justice missions.
So shameful -- CA companies & government agencies are avoiding environmental regulations by shipping toxic waste across state borders.
“The whole world knows how things function in Mexico,” said Maria Magdalena Cerda Baez, a policy advocate with the Environmental Health Coalition. She said U.S. hazardous waste going to her country is unjust. “How can you be so rich and commit these crimes against people’s health and future?”
"#Deforestation contributes 11% of global carbon emissions. A study found that UK imports of just 7 forest-risk commodities – soya, cocoa, palm oil, beef and leather, paper, rubber and timber – accounted for a land footprint of 88% of the size of the UK each year. In the same study, research showed that 40% of the UK’s overseas land footprint was in countries at high risk of deforestation, weak governance arrangements and poor labour standards."
This looks like a vital new #documentary: about the horrors Smithfield Foods (a pig farming giant) is imposing on on Black North Carolinians - correlating directly to geographies of #slavery
The #UAE’s pursuit of #CarbonCredits in #Kenya is leading to mass evictions of indigenous communities. This is not just about the environment; it's about lives being sacrificed for profit.
The carbon market's flaws, including fraudulent accounting, must be exposed. We need to resist this #BloodCarbonScam, raise awareness, and demand justice!