Articles include: Security Firm Accused of Working Illegally on O&G Pipelines; ‘Net-Zero’ PledgesDelay Climate Action new paper warns; Fossil Fuel Companies’ Tough Sell: Oil and Gas Sites With Costly Environmental Clean-up; Shell’s Science Museum Climate Exhibition; Irish Politicians And New Cheese Factory; Environmental Racism, Europe, and Coal Use; European Court & Climate-Related Human Rights Challenges; Methane Emissions Spiked in 2020; Climate Disinformation Database: Bjørn Lomborg.
Tag: Environmental and Racial Justice
The Daily Climate, April 8, 2021
Articles include: Marine life can’t survive at the equator; Black climate agenda; Biden to court – dismiss children’s lawsuit; ghost forests and sea level rise; Enbridge pipeline & Michigan; handling the climate crisis; nuclear heating plant; lightning & the Arctic; Report: Canadian wood pellet industry; EPA reverses trump; polar bears’ food plight; PayPal net-zero pledge.
This is environmental racism. How a protest in a North Carolina farming town sparked a national movement
Washington Post: ‘This is environmental racism’. How a protest in a North Carolina farming town sparked a national movement.
Ben Chavis was driving on a lonely road through rolling tobacco fields when he looked in his rearview mirror and saw the state trooper.
Chavis knew he was a marked man. Protests had erupted over North Carolina’s decision to dump 40,000 cubic yards of soil contaminated with cancer-causing chemicals in a poor Black farming community in Warren County, and Chavis was a leader of the revolt. The trooper pulled him over.
“What did I do, officer?” Chavis asked that day in 1982. The answer shocked him.
Exclusive: EPA reverses Trump stance in push to tackle environmental racism
The Guardian: Exclusive: EPA reverses Trump stance in push to tackle environmental racism. Environmental Protection Agency launches crackdown on pollution that disproportionately affects people of color.
Michael Regan, head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, has sought to revive the effort to confront environmental racism by ordering the agency to crack down on the pollution that disproportionately blights people of color.
On Wednesday, Regan issued a directive to EPA staff to “infuse equity and environmental justice principles and priorities into all EPA practices, policies, and programs”. The memo demands the agency use the “full array of policy and legal tools at our disposal” to ensure vulnerable communities are front of mind when issuing permits for polluting facilities or cleaning up following disasters.
EHN Sciences.org- April 9, 2021
EHSciences.org produces many links to environmental and health related stories. They are well worth subscribing to.
Above The Fold – Children’s News: DDT; PFAS; chemicals’ impact on male fertility; Black maternal health; children held in toxic detention centers; their ‘Fractured’ investigation; toxic heavy metals in baby food; federal support for food program; asthma funding in California; lead legislation; FDA’s rationale on baby food; pediatricians and lead poisoning.
Above The Fold – Covid News: US intelligence report; pregnancy & vaccination; predicting the next pandemic; food workers and Covid; pink dolphins in Hong Kong; AI designing antibodies; pandemic & electric vehicles.
Yale Climate Connections, April 9, 2021
Articles include: Wind and solar energy are job creators. Which states are taking advantage? Forecasters predict an above-average Atlantic hurricane season in 2021; How the nonprofit Green 2.0 is tackling the environmental movement’s diversity problem; Experts lay out their case against carbon pricing; Some insightful background pieces on Bangladesh; Extreme weather threatens internet infrastructure, broadband pioneer warns; How libraries are improving climate literacy in their communities; Georgia-based innovation lab works to speed the transition to clean transportation; Scholar-advocate Beverly Wright pushes for equity and justice in climate policy; Climate change is making it harder to grow the potatoes traditionally used for French fries
DeSmogBlog, April 4, 2021
Articles include: fossil fuel legacy & white supremacy; clean energy lowering costs impact; SW US fire threats caused by heat; Piney Point phosphate plant disaster; EPA dismisses trump appointees.
DeSmogBlog, April 3, 2021
Articles include: Understanding the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Legacy of White Supremacy; Feds Move Forward with New Mexico Drilling Plan Despite Community Outcry; British Airways Nearly as Polluting as All Vans on UK Roads Combined, Data Shows; UK Court Urged to Respect 1.5C Climate Limit; Climate Disinformation Database: FTI Consulting
The Daily Climate, March 23, 2021 – Study
Articles include: Pennsylvania & solar electric power; NY offshore wind; California oil companies; nitrogen hot spots & agriculture; Biden & greenhouse gas emissions; infrastructure plans; housing and flooding; climate polluters & greenwashing; FOIA reveals interference with offshore wind farms; migration caused by storms; Sharks, climate change, and restoring ocean habitats – study published in the Journal of Animal Ecology.
The Daily Climate, March 22, 2021
Articles include: Inuits and melting ice; Australia flooding; coal’s impact on the health of neighbors; electric vehicle opposition; climate justice and leaking oil wells; Volkswagen’s move to electric vehicles; deforestation; California real estate; Biden’s infrastructure plan; FERC shift on pipeline CO2 emissions.