Dino Grandoni
Green groups are expressing full-throated support for demonstrators protesting the killing of George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis police custody.
But the environmental movement is also grappling with how best to address its own issues with race and inequality — challenges that have long plagued the predominantly white leadership of major conservation organizations.
The moment is forcing a reckoning within the movement about whether it has done enough to support communities of color that have borne the brunt of pollution from power plants, refineries and other industrial facilities.
“Environmental racism is racism,” the Sierra Club said in a statement this week. “We must do more to address it.”
