"Frontline Communities Fight to Evict a Toxic Roofing Company"
"One of America’s largest shingle makers is pumping pollution into Black and brown communities from Texas to Minnesota"
"One of America’s largest shingle makers is pumping pollution into Black and brown communities from Texas to Minnesota"
"On Monday, Exxon Mobil filed a lawsuit against California Attorney General Rob Bonta and a coalition of environmental groups over their criticism of the company’s plastics recycling initiatives."
"The panels, removed under Ronald Reagan, found new homes from Maine to China. And their legacy still reverberates."
"Nearly 7 percent of Americans may be exposed to hazardous levels of “forever chemicals” through treated municipal wastewater, a new study has found."
"If the Department of Government Efficiency wants to cut $2 trillion in spending, handouts to the fossil fuel industry may be "a truth test to all of their messaging.""
"President Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters, a last-minute effort to block possible action by the incoming Trump administration to expand offshore drilling."
"The oil and gas industry gave about $24 million in campaign contributions to the members of the U.S. House and Senate expected to be sworn in January 3, 2025, according to a Yale Climate Connections review of campaign donations."
"Academics, conservationists, nonprofits, government agencies—and one passionate, retired scientist—are working to rebuild reefs, reduce the carbon imprint and educate the public about the importance of restoring the oyster population."
"While EPA rejected a push to scrap tougher safeguards for accidental industrial emissions, it has relented on the timetables for smog and incinerator rules."
An incoming Trump administration hostile to the very idea of environmental justice likely means the rollback of numerous policies and regulations designed to protect disadvantaged communities, cuts to an important “whole-of-government” initiative and downsizing of key federal environmental justice offices. The latest EJ TransitionWatch examines what’s at stake. And for more, see our Topics on the Beat page on environmental justice.