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Copenhagen and Us

Rinku Sen | Posted 12.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Copenhagen, Racial Disparities, Green Economy, Environmental Racism, Green Jobs, Environmental Justice, Copenhagen 2009, cop15, Danish Text Controversy, Green News
Rinku Sen

Communities of color, who experience the highest rates of joblessness and poverty, have also been hardest hit by environmental injustices.

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Civil Society Sounds Off on IFC Policies in Istanbul

Chad Dobson | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Transparency, Istanbul, Social Justice, Environmental Policy, Environmental Justice, Economic Development, World Bank, International Finance Corporation, International Financial Institutions, Indigenous Rights, Civil Society, Indigenous People, Business News
Chad Dobson

One German participant summarized: "The IFC places all of the burden of environmental and social safeguards on the client ... The whole world is re-regulating and you should too."

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A Bitter Taste

Javier Sierra | Posted 10.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Justice, Epa, Clean Water, Environment, Obama Administration, Enforcement, Anapra New Mexico, Lead Poisoning, Safety of Perchlorate in Water, Environmental Violations, Nytimes Toxic Water, Green News
Javier Sierra

At the end of the 31st annual Hispanic Heritage month, Latinos in the US are still waiting to celebrate a crucial victory --getting rid of the toxic water that poisons so many of our communities.

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Time Misses the Mark with Glenn Beck Cover Story

Josh Nelson | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Collar, Green Living, Environmental Justice, Politics, Media, Clean Energy, Glenn Beck, Green, Media Criticism, Global Warming, Van Jones, Climate Change, Green News
Josh Nelson

Glenn Beck thinks Time's cover story on him is fair. This alone should make it clear to the casual observer that it is in fact anything but.

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A Conversation with Nancy Sutley, Head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality

Javier Sierra | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House Council on Environmental Quality, Sierra Club, Latinos and Environment, Ceq, Environmental Justice, Hispanics and Environment, Javier Sierra, Nancy Sutley, Hispanic, Obama Administration, Latinas and the Environment, Global Warming, Politics News
Javier Sierra

As a Latina, Sutley is aware of our community's disproportionate suffering from the consequences of environmental degradation.

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Faith Can Move Mountains

Javier Sierra | Posted 08.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Lead Poisoning, Sierra Club, Environmental Justice, Asarco, Mariana Chew, El Paso, Smelter, Ciudad Juarez, Green News
Javier Sierra

The smelter spewed hundreds of thousands of tons of highly toxic substances such as lead, arsenic and cadmium, into the atmosphere and the communities that lived in its shadow.

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The Clean Energy Bill Story You Haven't Heard

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Bobby Rush, Clean Energy, Green for All, Naacp, Waxman-Markey, Climate Bill, Aces, Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Green News
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

We're building a growing consensus that low-income communities and communities of color must have a fair stake in a new clean energy economy.

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Is the Climate Change Bill An Assault on the Poor?

Cynthia Gordy | Posted 07.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Democrats, African Americans, President Obama, Green News
Cynthia Gordy

Opponents of the Waxman-Markey bill maintain that raising fuel and utility prices at all is an assault on the poor.

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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Relate: A Post-Earth Day Manifesto

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Simran Sethi, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, Environmental Justice, Oprah, The Good Fight, Earth Day, Gwendolyn Brooks, Cfl, Heather Mueller, Green Living, Green News
Simran Sethi

Ultimately, we can't shop our way to sustainability. Reduce is the first edict of environmentalism, with Re-use and Recycle following close behind.

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A Toxic Lesson

Javier Sierra | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Juan Parras, Latinos, Lisa Jackson, Environmental Justice, Javier Sierra, Epa, Hispanic, Air Quality, Pollution, Lungs, Texas, Hispanics and the Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Education, Sierra Club, Cesar Chavez High School, Houston, Latinos and the Environment, Contamination, Toxic Schools, Asthma, Schools, Green News
Javier Sierra

In more than half of the investigated schools, students were in danger of contracting cancer and respiratory diseases because of the presence of toxic compounds.

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Coal is Dirty. Period.

Javier Sierra | Posted 03.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Latinos, Sierra Club, Environmental Justice, Clean Coal, Tennessee Coal Ash, Obama Inauguration, Javier Sierra, Environment, Renewable Energy, Hispanic Voters, Obama, Tva, Green News
Javier Sierra

The coal industry has been behaving irresponsibly for decades. Each year, coal-fired power plants cause 21,000 hospitalizations, 38,000 heart attacks and 24,000 unnecessary deaths.

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Environmental Movement's Grandchild, Environmental Justice and Sustainability, Grows Up, Turns 30 in Brooklyn

Linda Cronin-Gross | Posted 12.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Environmental Education, Environmental Justice, Urban Environment, Brooklyn, Center for the Urban Environment, Environment, Sustainability, Environmentalism, Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment, New York City, Urban Rangers, Green News
Linda Cronin-Gross

Today in Brooklyn, the Center for the Urban Environment will celebrate its 30th anniversary. There will be a "green tie" gala, locally grown food, an...

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Clean Trucks and Green Collar Jobs

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 11.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Green Collar Jobs, Environmental Justice, Congestion Pricing, Sean Arian, Clean Truck Program, Antonio Villaraigosa, Christopher Ward, Clean Energy, Kim Thompson-Gaddy, Clean Air Action Plan, Barack Obama, Jerrold Nadler, Energy, Green News
Arlene M. Roberts

With heightened concerns over global warming, clean air is increasingly associated with seaports.

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Good Growth, Green Growth: Are We Ready for it?

Graham Hill | Posted 04.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Paul Hawken, Social Justice, Environmental Justice, Economic Growth, Green Living, Green News
Graham Hill

There is a certain topic that deserves, but probably will fail to get much play in the presidential and vice-presidential debates. That is how to achi...

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Environmental Racism Takes Hold In California

Olivia Zaleski | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Environmental Justice, Environmentalism, Los Angeles, Oil Refining, Racial Politics, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental, Environmental Racism, Los Angeles Pollution, Environment, Asthma, Racism, Air Pollution, Green News
Olivia Zaleski

Don't we all deserve clean air? The answer seems obvious, but in the predominantly Latino, Black and poverty-stricken neighborhoods of Southern Los An...

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On Earth Day, Let's Talk About Environmental Injustice

Rep. Joe Baca | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Latinos, Earth Day 2008, Environmental Justice, Earth Day, Climate Change, Global Warming, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Politics News
Rep. Joe Baca

It is a shame that people of color continue to bear an unjust, disproportionate burden, while contributing significantly to the American mosaic.

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