"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) raised concerns in a letter to its Georgia counterpart about the state utility’s storage of coal ash."
"Areli Sanchez’s daughter, Aida, used to be one of 20 million American kids who ride a diesel bus to school each day. ... She was admitted to the hospital for an asthma attack in second grade, and after that Sanchez began driving Aida to school."
"Under the ground, even under the snow, zombie fires are burning. The remnants of the most extraordinary wildfire season in recent Canadian history are still smoldering on a scale that experts say is unprecedented."
"“If we plan for environmental standards that would protect children, the most vulnerable in our society, we protect everybody. When we place the most vulnerable at risk, we place everybody at risk.”"
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"Tunisian wheat farmer Hasan Chetoui is seeking inspiration from the deep past as he tries to adapt to drought caused by climate change, sowing old wheat varieties that he hopes will produce crops throughout the year."
"It's 7:30 in the evening in Warsaw, and public news broadcaster TVP Info is about to broadcast live to millions of viewers across Poland. Producers in a crowded control room scurry in and out, sometimes stopping to peer through a narrow window into a studio where the host reads from a teleprompter."
"A city and county in Ohio have agreed to pay $112,000 to resolve NewsNation journalist Evan Lambert’s federal civil rights lawsuit, which stemmed from his unlawful arrest last year while covering a press conference about the derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio."
"In a mossy stretch of forest on Washington state's outer coast, streets and sidewalks have appeared in recent weeks, representing the future of the Quinault Indian Nation. The coastal tribe has spent a decade trying to move its villages out of reach of a rising Pacific Ocean and its tsunamis."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-questions-georgia-approval-state-utility-s-ash-disposal-plan
[2] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4483774-epa-takes-issue-with-georgia-agencys-approval-of-state-utilitys-ash-disposal-plan/
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/tired-diesel-fumes-these-moms-are-pushing-electric-school-buses
[4] https://apnews.com/article/electric-school-buses-diesel-exhaust-environmental-justice-4263455c7d55e34acd6f35dceb6db7c0
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/these-wildfires-never-went-out-they-just-moved-underground
[6] https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/02/24/canada-wildfires-zombie-fires/
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/robert-bullard-says-2024-year-environmental-justice
[8] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24022024/robert-bullard-says-2024-is-year-of-environmental-justice-for-shiloh-alabama/
[9] https://www.sej.org/initiatives/agenda-sejs-33rd-annual-conference
[10] https://www.sej.org/calendar/swcc-workshop-build-better-future-we-must-first-imagine-it
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/tunisia-farmer-turns-old-wheat-varieties-climate-change-bites
[12] https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/tunisia-farmer-turns-old-wheat-varieties-climate-change-bites-2024-02-21/
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/polands-new-government-deprograms-its-once-far-right-public-media
[14] https://www.npr.org/2024/02/19/1230673951/poland-new-government-polish-news-media
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/newsnation-journalist-lambert-wins-80000-judgment-vs-ohio-city-county
[16] https://www.rcfp.org/evan-lambert-judgment/
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/how-northwest-tribe-escaping-rising-ocean
[18] https://www.npr.org/2024/02/19/1228727075/how-a-northwest-tribe-is-escaping-a-rising-ocean
[19] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=516
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=513
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=514
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=515
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=518
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=519
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=520
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=521
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4888