Black People To Be Swept Aside For A South Carolina Freeway — Again
"In a planned highway widening project, 94 percent of displaced residents live in communities mostly consisting of Black and Brown people".
Source: Washington Post, 09/09/2021
Environmental Justice
SEJ's Fund for Environmental Journalism Awards $57,332 to Support Stories on Environmental Justice and Religion-Environment Connections
Sep 20, 2021 — The Fund for Environmental Journalism awarded $57,332 for 12 projects selected through the Spring 2021 round of competition, all for stories about underrepresented communities. More than 90% tell the story of a local community, ranging from the rubber factories of Akron, Ohio to the sacred groves of Meghalaya, India.
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Reclaiming Coal Country — Quest for a New Economy in Appalachia
Longtime energy and environment journalist Elizabeth McGowan traveled to southeast Kentucky to shine a light on efforts to diversify Appalachia’s longtime coal-based economy. In FEJ StoryLog, McGowan shares how her on-the-ground reporting approach, funded in part by the Society of Environmental Journalists’ Fund for Environmental Journalism, yielded not only a powerful story, but insights into overcoming its challenges.
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"Biden To Visit NY, NJ To View Hurricane Ida's Destruction"
"President Joe Biden will visit New York and New Jersey on Tuesday to view the destruction wrought by last week's Hurricane Ida, which has left at least 57 dead and four missing in the eastern United States."
Source: Reuters, 09/07/2021
"Living In A Sea Of Trash: Roma Fight Environmental Racism In Romania"
"Roma communities driven from Romania's booming city of Cluj-Napoca say the authorities treat them like human garbage. Pollution from a nearby landfill is damaging their health."
Source: DW, 09/06/2021
"Joe Manchin’s Dirty Empire"
"The West Virginia Senator Reaps Big Financial Rewards From a Network of Coal Companies With Grim Records of Pollution, Safety Violations, and Death"
Source: The Intercept, 09/06/2021
"Louisiana Shell Refinery Left Spewing Chemicals After Hurricane Ida"
"Behind a playground littered with downed tree branches, Shell’s refinery in Norco, Louisiana spewed black smoke from its stacks. The smell of rotten eggs, the signature scent of sulphur emissions, lingered in the air. In an effort to burn off toxic chemicals before and after Hurricane Ida, many industrial facilities sent the gases through smoke stacks topped with flares."
Source: Guardian, 09/06/2021
"Climate Change Will Hit Racial Minorities Harder, Analysis Finds"
"Racial minorities in the United States will bear a disproportionate burden of the negative health and environmental impacts from a warming planet, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday, including more deaths from extreme heat and property loss from flooding in the wake of sea-level rise."
Source: AP, 09/03/2021
EPA Falsifying Risk Assessments For Dangerous Chemicals: Whistleblowers
"Whistleblowers say the US Environmental Protection Agency has been falsifying dangerous new chemicals’ risk assessments in an effort to make the compounds appear safe and quickly approve them for commercial use."
Source: Guardian, 08/31/2021
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