#environmental-justice

#environmental-justice

When a toxic metal foundry finally shut down in East Oakland after years of community organizing, residents celebrated a hard-won victory. But as our environmental reporter discovered, a new polluter was allowed to move in with the city's blessing. This story reveals how environmental enforcement works - or doesn't work - in Oakland, and the powerful force of engaged residents fighting for their neighborhoods.

When we apply that lens to the current proposals for casinos across New York City, one approach stands out above the others. Nearly every project would require demolishing existing buildings to construct new ones a process that generates enormous amounts of construction waste and debris while disrupting established ecosystems. In fact, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, more than 90% of all construction debris is produced by the demolition of existing buildings.

Today, the Rio Blanco mining camp in south-central Ecuador lies in ruins. Shattered china litters the ground not far from a hollowed-out kitchen with no walls left standing. An abandoned mine tunnel as wide as a house stands on a hillside, overlooking the charred remains of a diesel station. In 2018, environmentalists hailed Rio Blanco's closure as a landmark win for conservation.

Over the 21 years that the prior mural was here and then to today, this neighborhood has gone through so many transformations and transitions and obviously we're at another moment of transformation for Gowanus,

"We have seen a complete erasure of evidence of environmental racism," said Gretchen Gehrke, cofounder of EDGI and the web governance program lead.

The current Trump administration has made 70% more changes to government environmental websites during its first 100 days than the first Trump administration did.

Donald Trump's administration has launched a sweeping assault on "diversity, equality, and inclusion" by banning public anti-discrimination efforts that aim to benefit historically disadvantaged groups.

The Bhopal Gas Disaster in late 1984 led to over 22,000 deaths and widespread poisoning in Bhopal, highlighting the severe and long-lasting impacts of industrial negligence.

The ruling allows an appraiser's affidavit in the case to be added to the record for standing purposes (to show harm) only.

The name Erin Brockovich is now so symbolic in the U.S. that it is also used as a verb: to Erin Brockovich something means to investigate it to the bitter end; in other words, refusing to give up.

"Despite decades of harm, the Department of Transportation is pushing a plan to widen the Cross Bronx by adding another highway structure over the Bronx River and Starlight Park."

"They understand that what they're doing is devastating, and they're doing it anyway," says Astra Taylor, emphasizing the danger posed by right-wing movements.

Asthma is a preventive condition. No one should die of asthma.

We are urging you to halt NYC DOT's proposed multi-billion-dollar project to rebuild and potentially expand the BQE's triple cantilever, a project that would embed this malignant roadway in our communities for generations to come.

"The decision does not preclude the district attorney from seeking criminal charges against the company and its employees in the future, or pursuing a civil case against them."

"This is how you cancel an agreement aimed at rebuilding the sewage infrastructure in an impoverished county in Alabama. You declare that agreement was cancelled because it was an 'illegal' DEI arrangement because it was aimed at helping Black people, and that's all you need to say."