The Trump administration’s destructive environmental policies will cost us all. But we must not give up. Trump and his Environmental Protection Agency have made it easier for polluters to profit off our families, our public health, and our planet, writes Representative Lee.
Raising kids today means having to answer difficult questions about our changing climate — like why the air will sometimes smell like smoke, or why we can’t play outside when it’s too hot. As parents raising kids in California, we have to answer these questions more frequently.
Instead of protecting us and our children from the climate crisis, the Trump administration is making climate denial official government policy. Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency is repealing its own scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare.
Local and state cumulative impacts laws can provide needed protections for communities where the federal government is failing, and make fertile ground for future federal progress.
Rep. Luz Rivas (CA-29) warns how Donald Trump has wreaked havoc on critical environmental justice protections, with the administration set on gutting the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulatory power, rolling back pollution limits, and dismantling lifesaving rules to give corporate handouts.
The climate crisis is here, and it is damaging vulnerable communities and communities of color. As the National Black Caucus of State Legislators has pointed out, these are the same communities that for decades have been “disproportionately and systematically” poisoned by fossil fuels and other toxic pollution…
John Podesta & EJHA’s Michele Roberts In the next few weeks, congressional leaders have a critical opportunity to join forces with President Joe Biden to turn the tide against climate change, economic inequality, and environmental injustice. Biden has proposed an American Jobs Plan that calls for a $2.6 trillion investment over ten years to rebuild…
Los Jardines Institute’s Richard Moore More than ever before, the Biden administration has put environmental justice on the national agenda. In January, President Biden outlined plans for the Justice40 Initiative, which would direct 40 percent of the benefits of a sustainable economy to marginalized communities like mine, in Albuquerque, N.M. To some, this may sound…
State Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter As states rush to reopen amid the continuing spread of the deadly coronavirus, they and the federal government should take extra precautions to protect workers, especially those in communities already overburdened by pollution and other environmental hazards. The National Black Caucus of State Legislators has been working to address environmental justice…
David Roberts After the ignominious failure of the Democratic climate change bill in President Barack Obama’s first term — the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill that passed the House but died in the Senate — the climate movement has been searching for a winning strategy. Now, a coalition of environmental groups, labor unions, and progressive organizations has…
