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Bullard, who is often credited as the "father" of the movement, said he looks no further than the 20 HBCU students who ...
Environmental racism often flies under the radar—with disastrous consequences. Here, experts explain what it is and how it affects our world.
A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that EPA’s termination of $600 million in environmental justice grants issued by the Biden ...
Environmental hazards disproportionately impact low-income communities and people of color, but there are moves happening in our own back yard to foster change. We’re talking with local experts ...
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with the Rev. Ben Chavis, an environmental justice pioneer ...
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has canceled more than 400 environmental justice grants totaling $1.7 billion. ... Black children, for example, ...
Environmental justice was born here. Johnson’s mother, Hazel Johnson, originally from New Orleans, is celebrated as “the mother of the environmental justice movement.”Her lifelong fight to ...
Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice was granted $474,000 for a community air quality system, ... For example, the agency directed ...
Officially known as Executive Order 12898, it required agencies to incorporate environmental justice into their missions “to the greatest extent practicable.” ... At EPA, for example, ...
The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, for example, ... The Mountain and Plains Environmental Justice Grants Hub, or MAP EJ Grants Hub, planned to distribute $40 million funding throughout EPA Region 8.
Rayasam said that’s a “pretty explicit” example of a statute mandating environmental justice practices, and factoring in population and exposure variability is a relatively new priority for EPA.
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