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[Environmental disaster] hits [minority group] harder than whites, study finds
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David Roberts |
11 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| In coming years, expect many, many more headlines like this. Why, if you squint really hard, I bet you'll even see a pattern emerge! |
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| Topics: climate, environmental justice, green living (all these topics) |
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This Land Was Paid By You and Me
Bush administration raises park fees, advocates cry foul |
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08 May 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| This Land Was Paid By You and Me Bush administration raises park fees, advocates cry foul The Bush administration is consistent-izing rates at 135 national parks, a move that will see some fees double. It will also tie future rates to inflation, raising them every three years. A National Park Service spokesperson says the shift is an attempt to simplify the current rate structure, bringing the ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, National Park Service, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Making sure the green wave lifts all boats
New report from Apollo Alliance on good green jobs |
Kate Sheppard |
01 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The Apollo Alliance and Urban Habitat have a new report out today on the coming green economy and the immense job potential for traditionally excluded groups -- low-income, heavily minority urban communities. The report sets out a vision for green jobs in the U.S. and outlines the green industries that already exist in the country, offering policy guidance for creating better jobs for more people. It also details programs that are working, like apprenticeships, job ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, environmental justice, green jobs, placemaking, Van Jones (all these topics) |
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First Things First
Canadian Sophia Rabliauskas fights to protect her First Nation territory |
Michelle Nijhuis |
25 Apr 2007 |
Main Dish |
| Sophia Rabliauskas. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. The boreal forests of Canada, which stretch across the midsection of the country, are blessed with abundant wildlife, pristine wetlands, and vast carbon-storage capacities. For Sophia Rabliauskas, these abundant forests are also home. She's a member of the Poplar River First Nation, and she grew up in its traditional t ... |
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| Topics: Canada, environmental justice, heroes, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Latter-Day Paints
EPA says racism isn't a factor in Ford Superfund saga |
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13 Apr 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Latter-Day Paints EPA says racism isn't a factor in Ford Superfund saga A strange environmental-justice saga is unfolding in New Jersey, pitting Ford Motor Co. against a community of Ramapough Indians and their allies. Decades ago, Ford dumped thousands of tons of toxic paint sludge at a former mining area. The dump was declared a Superfund site, reportedly cleaned up, and del ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, insanity, New Jersey, news, politics, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Sustainability in world politics, continued
On Revkin's piece on poverty and climate change impacts |
John McGrath |
02 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| (A topic I return to every once in a while. See here and here.) The link that Jason posted Sunday deserves a closer look, if you missed it over the weekend. Revkin has written an excellent, if somewhat depressing, piece on the fact that while climate change is overwhelmingly the responsibility of the world's rich nations, the nations that suffer most will be the world's poorest. It also reminds me of something else I heard Tim Flannery say last week: whatever ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, environmental justice, politics, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Right before my very eyes: Ethiopia
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Geoff Dabelko |
01 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The vista of Ethiopia's ancient Rift Valley, speckled with shimmering lakes, stretches before me as our motorized caravan heads south from Lake Langano, part of a study tour on population-health-environment issues organized by the Packard Foundation. Sadly, the country's unrelenting poverty and insecurity are as breathtaking as the view -- Ethiopia currently ranks 170 out of 177 countries on the UN Development Programme's Human Development Index. These numbers beco ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, Ethiopia, politics, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Equal opportunity organic
Sustainable food meets social justice |
Stephanie Paige Ogburn |
30 Mar 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Grassroots organic is alive and well, even in the concrete jungles of New Haven and Boston. Today I spent an hour and a half at a talk called 'Food Policy: Addressing Social Justice in the Sustainable and Local Food Movements.' The event's keynote speakers were two women who work for urban sustainable food initiatives. One of the organizations, CitySeed, is located in New Haven, Conn. At the talk, CitySeed's executive director, Jennifer McTiernan, spoke about ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, food, green living, organic food, politics (all these topics) |
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Not In My Back Yardarm
Biggest U.S. oil-tanker company slapped with $37 million in dumping fines |
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22 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Not In My Back Yardarm Biggest U.S. oil-tanker company slapped with $37 million in dumping fines They would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling pipe fitters: the nation's largest oil-tanker company, Overseas Shipholding Group, will pay $37 million for gooping up U.S. seas. For nearly five years, the company's ships dumped waste oil and sludge off the coasts of ... |
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| Topics: energy, environmental justice, news, oil, renewable energy, shenanigans (all these topics) |
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Van Jones
Read the interview! |
David Roberts |
20 Mar 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I hope that everyone will take some time and head over to read my interview with Van Jones, civil rights lawyer, founder and director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, and rising star of progressive activism. His message is that largely white, affluent "eco-elites" need to broaden their coalition by reaching out to low-income and minority youth, promising them training and jobs in the new clean energy economy. As he says: "For people with a bu ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, environmental movement, messaging, politics (all these topics) |
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A Van With a Plan
An interview with Van Jones, advocate for social justice and shared green prosperity |
David Roberts |
20 Mar 2007 |
Main Dish |
| Big business has finally realized that there's lots of money to be made in the transition to a clean-energy economy. Van Jones wants to make sure working-class and minority Americans realize it too. Van Jones. Jones, a civil-rights lawyer, is founder and executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, an innovative nonprofit that made its name working ... |
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| Topics: business, energy, environmental justice, green jobs, interview, renewable energy, Van Jones (all these topics) |
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She Will Have Her Way
Hearing held on Inuit climate and human-rights claim against U.S. |
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01 Mar 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| She Will Have Her Way Hearing held on Inuit climate and human-rights claim against U.S. In the northern reaches of the world, climate change is more than a theory. For years, native Inuit have seen extreme weather and weak ice interfere with their lives, and they say big emitters like the U.S. are to blame. Today -- more than a year after filing a petition with the Inter-Ame ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change impacts, environmental justice, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Detroit Should Get an Award for Ending Every List
New report ranks U.S. cities on environmental and social realities |
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23 Feb 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Detroit Should Get an Award for Ending Every List New report ranks U.S. cities on environmental and social realities A new report ranks 72 U.S. cities on their greenness -- but we're not talking just parks and bike paths. The Urban Environment Report, put out by the Washington, D.C.-based Earth Day Network, includes a "vulnerable population index" that takes into account the segment of a city's ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, news, placemaking, politics (all these topics) |
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Yearning to Breathe Free
Study finds air-quality inequality in San Francisco Bay area |
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21 Feb 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Yearning to Breathe Free Study finds air-quality inequality in San Francisco Bay area According to a new study, people of color and poorer residents in the San Francisco Bay area breathe more than their share of polluted air. "We have a problem with the degree of environmental inequality ... even though we regard ourselves as a region that is very progressive," said Manuel Pastor, director of th ... |
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| Topics: California, environmental justice, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Who Speaks for the Eggman?
U.S. green groups sue feds over polar bear, walrus protection |
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14 Feb 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Who Speaks for the Eggman? U.S. green groups sue feds over polar bear, walrus protection Two green groups have sued the feds for failing to protect polar bears and walruses (walri?) from the nasty combo of oil drilling and global warming. Pacific Environment and the Center for Biological Dive ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, climate, environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, mining and drilling, news, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Now Who's a Moonbeam?
On heels of climate report, governments and businesses get real |
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05 Feb 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Now Who's a Moonbeam? On heels of climate report, governments and businesses get real Heeding a call from French President Jacques Chirac, 46 nations are backing a plan to create a powerful new U.N. Environment Organization that could police climate offenders. Egregious emitters Russia, China, India, and the U.S. didn't leap up and down volunteering to j ... |
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| Topics: business, California, climate, environmental justice, France, news, politics, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics) |
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Their Day in Cote
Groundwork begins for Ivory Coast toxic-dumping lawsuit |
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08 Jan 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Their Day in Cote Groundwork begins for Ivory Coast toxic-dumping lawsuit It's been almost five months since a cargo ship dumped over 400 tons of toxic "slops" in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, leaving at least 10 people dead and more than 40,000 ill. At the time, residents of the African nation responded by blockading streets, burning stuff, and collapsing their government. Now that's direct action ... |
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| Topics: Africa, environmental justice, news, politics, toxics (all these topics) |
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My predictions
Guaranteed true, top to bottom! |
biodiversivist |
02 Jan 2007 |
Gristmill |
| In 2007: Prius sales will peak and begin a slow decline as consumers anticipate 2008 models from competitors that will have similar or better performance and therefore higher status. Electric hybrid bikes will become increasingly popular as a commuting tool thanks to improved battery technology. The SUV fad will continue to fade. The corn ethanol pyramid scheme will continue to play out based on the canard that the use of environmentally destructive biofuels i ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, electric vehicles, environmental justice, green living, hybrids, lists, Prius (all these topics) |
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Naughty and Nice
How the energy industry spent its holiday vacation |
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02 Jan 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Naughty and Nice How the energy industry spent its holiday vacation While you were whooping over your Wii, the energy industry exulted in a few holiday gifts of its own. Just before Christmas, a federal appeals court gave ExxonMobil a $2.5 billion break, slashing in half the $5 billion in damages that had been awarded to thousands of Alaskans affe ... |
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| Topics: Department of Interior, energy, environmental justice, news, oil, politics, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics) |
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Inuit All Along
Inuit climate petition against U.S. is rejected |
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18 Dec 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Inuit All Along Inuit climate petition against U.S. is rejected Is climate change a human-rights issue? The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights decided to dodge the question. Arctic Inuit submitted a petition to the commission a year ago, accusing the U.S. government of violating Native peoples' rights to their traditional ways of life by declining to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions. The IAC ... |
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| Topics: Arctic, climate, environmental justice, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Fun and James
Sarah James, Gwich'in activist and environmental prizewinner, answers readers' questions |
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15 Dec 2006 |
InterActivist |
| What are the Gwich'in Steering Committee's plans for the next two years, and what can all of us people who live in the Lower 48 do to help the committee in its work? -- Lenny Kohm, Todd, N.C. Sarah James, Gwich'in Steering Committee. We are going to continue to educate the world about global warming. People will see that it makes no sense to open a new place to drilling for oil, ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, oil and gas drilling (all these topics) |
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Who Will Get the Jobs?
An environmental-justice advocate responds to the biofuels boom |
Alan Hipólito |
11 Dec 2006 |
Soapbox |
| I am very excited to see this Grist series, because I am a biodiesel user. I am also very worried about the growth of the biofuels industry, because I am an environmental-justice advocate, and I see this industry rapidly leaving my community behind. What happens after the photo shoot? Photo: house.gov The growth of the biofuels industry creates significant economic benefits and dow ... |
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| Topics: biofuels, economy, energy, environmental justice, politics (all these topics) |
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Que Sarah, Sarah
Sarah James, Gwich'in activist and environmental prizewinner, answers Grist's questions |
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11 Dec 2006 |
InterActivist |
| Sarah James. What work do you do? I am the board chairperson for the Gwich'in Steering Committee. I work as I live the life. And I am open to opportunities to tell my story in order to protect the calving and nursery grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd. What does your organization do? The Gwich'in Steering Committee works on behalf of the Gwich'in Nation to protect Iizhik Gwats' ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, Arctic Refuge, environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, oil and gas drilling (all these topics) |
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Letting the Cataclysm Out of the Bag
Supreme Court hears opening arguments in landmark climate-change case |
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30 Nov 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Letting the Cataclysm Out of the Bag Supreme Court hears opening arguments in landmark climate-change case Climate change made its Supreme debut yesterday, as the high court began considering whether the U.S. EPA must regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Much of the opening session concerned whether the plaintiffs, including several green groups and a dozen states, had suffered enough ... |
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| Topics: climate, environmental justice, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Mass Appeal
Supremes to decide whether EPA can or must regulate greenhouse-gas emissions |
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28 Nov 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Mass Appeal Supremes to decide whether EPA can or must regulate greenhouse-gas emissions Tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments in Massachusetts v. EPA, a humdinger of a case looking at whether the federal government can or must regulate greenhouse-gas emissions. The case centers on a Clean Air Act provision that requires regulation of air pollutants that "may reasonably ... |
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| Topics: climate, environmental justice, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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