environmental racism
Rotten Eggs, Paint, and Garbage: What Environmental Racism Smells Like
Neighborhoods of color across the country are coping with horrible smells—and their health impacts. It’s racism on full display.
Black and Latinx People Care More About Climate Change Than White People: Poll
Black and Latinx Americans were more likely to say their communities were impacted by climate change and more ready to take action against it, a VICE News poll found.
Pig-Poop Lagoons Are Huge Polluters. A ‘Green’ Solution Might Make Them Dirtier.
The world’s largest pork processor says it has a “green” solution that could cover up some of the enormous pits. But not everyone is convinced.
A Black Memphis Community Says It’s Being Poisoned by the US Government
Cancer-causing arsenic is leaking out of a shuttered coal plant into Memphis groundwater. One local calls it “a ticking time bomb.”
Hundreds of U.S. Citizens Are Suing BP After Oil Rained Down on Their Homes
A group of investors and the oil company BP tried to restart a massive oil refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Within days, it was spewing oil on a majority Black area and now hundreds of residents are suing.
Watch Rashida Tlaib Grill Bank CEOs Who Are Confused About Environmental Racism
Rashida Tlaib: “I just want to ask one by one, yes or no, are you familiar with the term ‘environmental racism’?” Bank CEOs: “Vaguely,” “Only vaguely,” “No.”
This ‘Woke’ Oil Company Has Been Illegally Polluting a Poor Latino Community
Oil giant Suncor vowed to fight racism in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. But it’s still releasing cancer-causing chemicals into a low-income Latino neighborhood north of Denver.
The Fossil Fuel Business Model Is Built On Harming Black and Brown People, New Report Says
Deadly fossil fuel-linked air pollution disproportionately harms Black people, says a new report by Greenpeace
Black People Are Being Shut Out of the Clean Energy Boom
Just 8 percent of employees at solar companies are Black. President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion stimulus could change that.
Biden Wants to Reopen a Child Detention Center on Top of Toxic Military Waste
Joe Biden is looking to reopen the children’s detention center in Homestead, Florida, which is situated in an area so polluted it’s been designated unfit for residents.
The Activist Who Keeps Exposing Environmental Racism in the U.S.
Dr. Beverly Wright, co-founder of the National Black Environmental Justice Network, has spent decades empowering communities that are vulnerable to toxic chemicals.
It's Time for Environmental Studies to Own Up to Erasing Black People
Many aspects of environmental scholarship are inaccessible to Black students, including textbooks that don't acknowledge our history, and field work requirements that are ignorant of Black criminalization in the outdoors.