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Op-ed: The common ground between labor and climate justice is the key to a livable future

Environmental Health News

Growing up in a working-class area in Mumbai, India, I felt alienated, like many in my community, by mainstream environmental and climate advocacy, despite studying environmental sciences and facing harmful exposure to pollution in my neighborhood. I’ve seen this apparent contradiction since I was young.

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How the plastic industry undermines democracy by blocking bans

Environmental Health News

Harris, an associate research professor at the University of Kansas, was participating in a global study , published in 2023, that looked for microplastics in lakes all over the world. For the fourth year in a row, Kansas lawmakers tried to pass a law that would block local plastic bans. Who is behind the laws blocking plastic bans?

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What’s hampering federal environmental justice efforts in the hydrogen hub build-out?

Environmental Health News

Later, after reading the DOE's public summary of the event, she felt frustrated. “I In 2023, the Biden administration passed historic federal policies directing 80 agencies to prioritize environmental justice in decision-making. But the specifics of how that works varies across agencies.

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Hydrogen hubs test new federal environmental justice rules

Environmental Health News

“I have a lot of concerns about how large that facility might be and what emissions could be like, and whether it’ll cause increased traffic on the river and the roads,” said Coptis, who works as a senior advisor at the climate advocacy nonprofit Taproot Earth.

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Trash Incinerators Disproportionately Harm Black and Hispanic People

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Residents feared the site would not only sink their property values and threaten the environment, but also potentially harm people’s health. Even more, the locations appeared to have been selected in a way that worried civil rights and environmental advocacy groups.