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Environmental Racism
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Environmental Racism: A Letter From New Mexico to Flint
Regardless of our identity or where we call home, it's up to us to stand together, organize, oppose harm and oppression.
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Montana Tribe’s Water Deal Clears Major Senate Milestone
Blackfeet have waited decades to resolve their water claims but Congress is in no hurry.
Beyond Flint, Michigan: Mainstreaming the Navajo Water Crisis
Current public outcry may be a harbinger of an environmental justice movement ready to galvanize itself towards a higher calling.
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Environmental Justice: What the Candidates Missed in Flint – and the Rest of the Country
Presidential candidates have commented on Flint's contaminated water crisis, but less so on systemic environmental racism.
Flint Refuses to Be Poisoned
Michigan's Republican Gov. Rick Snyder is finally feeling the heat for the outrageous crime of contaminating a city's water supply.
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Highway Injustice in Denver’s Latino Neighborhoods
Poor districts have breathed I-70's pollution for decades. Now they're facing its expansion.
Alabama Community Demands EPA Recognize Environmental Racism as a Civil Wrong
From California to Michigan, low-income communities of color have been waiting years for the US Environmental Protection Agency to take a stand.
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EPA Draft Plan Would Perpetuate Environmental Racism, Critics Say
“EJ 2020” proposal is heavy on process and light on tangible steps to address discrimination, according to many who submitted public comments.
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The Slow-Motion Crisis in the Urban US
Millions of residents in poor city neighborhoods live in environments that assault their health on a daily basis.
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Doing Ferguson and Baltimore at the Intersection of Racial Oppression and Hopelessness
While matriculating through these oppressed and hopeless spaces, I was awakened to my privilege.