‘Cancer Alley’ Community Fights For Its Life Against A Plastics Plant
"In this Louisiana parish, residents are already surrounded by industrial plants and factories. They’re desperate to stop a new plastic company."
Source: HuffPost, 07/09/2019
Activism
All forms of advocacy, esp. environmental groups.
"Environmental Groups Fight EPA's New FOIA Rule"
"A coalition of environmental groups pushed back Monday against a new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule that could restrict access to public records."
Source: The Hill, 07/09/2019
"Democrats Seek Solution In Fight Over 2020 Climate Debate"
"The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is considering two measures that end the conflict over holding a standalone climate debate for 2020 presidential hopefuls, two DNC officials confirmed to The Hill on Monday."
Source: The Hill, 07/02/2019
SEJ Objects to EPA's 'Freedom of Information Act Regulations Update'
June 26, 2019 — The Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ), in a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler, objected to the EPA's June 26 Final Rulemaking entitled "Freedom of Information Act Regulations Update." The letter states that the rule "enables the agency to limit public access to EPA records that are legally public information" and "the highly irregular procedure of issuing a final rule without proposal or public comments is unjustified and unlawful under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA)."
- Text of SEJ's June 26, 2019 letter to U.S. EPA Administrator Wheeler.
- June 27, 2019 EPA release in response to SEJ's letter.
- Text of SEJ's July 9, 2019 letter to EPA's Elise Packard, Deputy General Counsel for Operations, and Timothy Epp, Acting Director, National FOIA Office, responding to EPA's June 27 release.
- July 9, 2019 RCFP/News Media Coalition letter, which SEJ signed on to along with 37 other news media organizations, to Christopher T. Creech, Office of General Counsel, U.S. EPA
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In Greta Thunberg's Footsteps: Climate Kids Fighting For Their Future
"A keen reader of graphic novels, nine-year-old Zayne Cowie has a bookshelf laden with tales of the struggles of imaginary superheroes. Now, a real-life role model has inspired him to join a battle for his own planet’s future."
Source: Reuters, 06/20/2019
"The Tree Thought To Have Inspired Dr. Seuss' 'The Lorax' Has Fallen"
"The Lorax would be devastated to hear that the tree that inspired Dr. Seuss' 1971 children's book has fallen."
Source: CNN, 06/18/2019
Greens Ask Interior Watchdog To Probe Agency's Public Records Policies
"A number of conservation groups are asking the Interior Department’s internal watchdog to investigate reports that political appointees are improperly interfering in the release of public records."
Source: The Hill, 06/18/2019
"U.S. Green Groups Ramp Up Legal Attacks On Federal Oil Leases"
"U.S. environmental groups fighting fossil-fuel development made headlines years ago with public demonstrations against big pipeline projects including the Dakota Access and the Keystone XL - only to be steamrolled by President Donald Trump’s executive orders to approve them. Now the so-called ‘keep it in the ground’ movement has a new strategy to slow Trump’s pro-oil agenda: Burying the administration in formal written protests and lawsuits challenging nearly every oil and gas lease it plans on public land."
Source: Reuters, 06/14/2019
Greens Petition DNC for Climate Debate With 200,000 Signatures
"A collection of activist groups delivered a petition with more than 200,000 signatures to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters Wednesday calling for a presidential debate focused on climate change."
Source: The Hill, 06/13/2019
Judges Grill Both Sides in Youth Climate Case Against the Government
"Three federal judges heard arguments Tuesday about whether young people have a constitutional right to be protected from climate change. In the lively, hourlong hearing, the judges, from the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, pushed skeptically on the arguments of both sides."
Source: NY Times, 06/05/2019
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