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Tag: environmental racism

Demonstrators hold a casket symbolic of all the lives lost in their community due to environmental racism. The rally started at Freedom Plaza and headed to the White House part of the People vs. Fossil Fuels Campaign on Oct. 25, demanding a cessation of fossil fuel projects. (Marckell Williams/The Washington Informer)
Posted inLetters to the Editor

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Products of the Environment

by WI Editorial Staff November 2, 2022November 3, 2022

We must bring attention to environmental racism to our elected leaders and make them do their jobs.

Rosa Lee, a resident in northeast D.C. and volunteer with Washington Interfaith Networks, talks about learning the harmful pollutants from natural gas. (Shevry Lassiter/The Washington Informer)
Posted inHealth

Inflation Reduction Act May Help D.C. Address Its Unequal Air Pollution

by Kayla Benjamin September 14, 2022September 14, 2022
train rails photography
Posted inOpinion

EDNEY: Environmental Justice Concerns Loom Over Rail Merger

by Hazel Trice Edney, Special to The Informer via Trice Edney News Wire August 24, 2022August 24, 2022
EPA Administrator Michael Regan (Courtesy photo)
Posted inNational

EPA Director Stays Focused
on Clean Air and Water for
Communities of Color

by Stacy M. Brown May 11, 2022May 11, 2022
Pollution from factories continue to destroy the environment. (Courtesy photo)
Posted inOpinion

MABSON: Eric Garner, Earth Day and the EPA at 50

by WI Guest Author April 14, 2021December 21, 2021
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons via wemu.org
Posted inBlack Experience, National

Michigan Announces $600M Settlement in Flint Water Lawsuit

by WI Guest Author August 20, 2020December 21, 2021
**FILE** Protest against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in Staunton, Virginia (Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inCommunity

Dominion Energy Scraps Plans for $8 Billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline

by WI Guest Author July 6, 2020December 21, 2021
Kamala Harris
Posted inNational

Kamala Harris to Lead COVID-19-Related Brain Trust on Water Justice, Equity Issues

by WI Guest Author June 15, 2020December 21, 2021
Posted inBenjamin F. Chavis Jr., Columnists, Op-Ed, Opinion

CHAVIS: Stop Excluding People of Color in Environmental Policies

by Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis May 6, 2020December 21, 2021
St. Louis tenements, like this one in the North Central area, became plagued by tuberculosis after developers rented units of the condemned property to newly arriving migrants from Southern states. (Courtesy of the Missouri Historical Society)
Posted inSupplements, Sustainability

Intersectionality of Environmental Racism & Eugenics

by Dr. Shantella Y. Sherman April 15, 2020December 21, 2021

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