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All forms of advocacy, esp. environmental groups.

Small California Town Takes on Oil Industry Health Threats [1]

"The mostly low-income, Latino residents of Arvin have joined with other communities to demand setbacks for wells. Their slogan: “No drilling where we are living.”"

Activism [2]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Justice [4]
Public [5]
California [6]
Source: InsideClimate News [7], 08/04/2020
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"How Joe Biden’s Surprisingly Ambitious Climate Plan Came Together" [8]

"During a recent virtual fundraiser focused on climate action, former vice president Joe Biden made a direct appeal to voters young enough to be his grandchildren."

Activism [2]
Climate Change [9]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [10]
People & Population [11]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Washington Post [13], 08/04/2020
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"Black Urban Farmers Dig To Uproot U.S. 'Food Apartheid'" [14]

"In a backyard in the Bronx in the mid-1980s, a vine laden with sweet-smelling tomatoes came as a revelation to urban gardening guru Karen Washington. 'It was tomatoes that really got me hooked on growing food, because I hated tomatoes,' she said, laughing at the memory."

Activism [2]
Agriculture [15]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [10]
Food [16]
People & Population [11]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [17], 07/29/2020
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Grim Report Shows How Many Environmental Activists Were Killed Last Year [18]

"The year 2019 was the most dangerous on record for environmental activists, a new report says. Every day around the world, people stand up to companies exploiting land for profit, felling trees, damming and polluting waterways, displacing ancestral homes and destroying wildlife habitats. Every week, an average of four of these defenders are killed."

Activism [2]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Public [5]
International [20]
Source: HuffPost [21], 07/29/2020
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Finding Native People at Heart of Environment Beat [22]

As Democratic New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland prepares to possibly become the first Native American Interior secretary, it's becoming clearer than ever that environmental concerns are deeply intertwined with Native American life. But news media often ignore the connections, missing important stories as a result. Our new Backgrounder helps set that to rights by spotlighting 10 key environmental issues affecting Native American communities and offering a dozen-and-a-half reporting resources. 

SEJ Publication Types: 
Backgrounders [23]
Topics on the Beat: 
Activism [2]
Environmental Politics [10]
Journalism & Media [24]
People & Population [11]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [12]
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Public [5]
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"The Sierra Club Faces Its White-Supremacist History" [25]

"The group is speaking out against John Muir, its founder and an environmental icon who fought to preserve nature and disparaged African Americans and Native Americans".

Activism [2]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [10]
People & Population [11]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: Washington Post [26], 07/23/2020
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"The Teenagers at the End of the World" [27]

"Young climate activists like Jamie Margolin are building a movement while growing up — planning mass protests from childhood bedrooms and during school."

Activism [2]
Climate Change [9]
Environmental Politics [10]
People & Population [11]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: NYTimes [28], 07/22/2020
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"Campaign 2020: Meet Biden's Climate Rainmakers" [29]

"Climate change activists have emerged as some of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's most important donors, having hosted some of his biggest fundraising events."

Activism [2]
Climate Change [9]
Economy & Business [30]
Energy & Fuel [3]
Environmental Politics [10]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [12]
Source: E&E News [31], 07/13/2020
  • Read more about "Campaign 2020: Meet Biden's Climate Rainmakers" [29]

From Louisiana to Taiwan, Green Activists Stand Up To Plastics Giant [32]

"Formosa Plastics, a Taiwanese plastics company, intends to build a complex St. James Parish, Louisiana, a region already known as "Cancer Alley." Environmental activist Anne Rolfes faces criminal charges for a protest action she took to call attention to the company's history of harm." "From Southeast Asia to the United States, activists have called attention in recent years to the harmful impact of chemical companies such as Formosa Plastics Corporation, a Taiwanese petrochemical company that operates throughout the world, including the US."

Activism [2]
Chemicals [33]
Environmental Health [34]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [19]
People & Population [11]
Pollution [35]
Waste [36]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [5]
International [20]
Source: PRI The World [38], 07/10/2020
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Detroit: Civil Rights Coalition Sues To Bar Water Shutoffs For Residents [39]

"A coalition of civil rights groups have filed a landmark class action to permanently ban water shutoffs for Detroit residents and force the city to implement an affordable payment plan."

Activism [2]
Consumer [40]
Economy & Business [30]
Environmental Health [34]
Environmental Justice [4]
Environmental Politics [10]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [5]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [41]
Source: Guardian [42], 07/10/2020
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