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 particulate matter air pollution  (PM 2.5)–a type of pollution caused by microscopic particles that are 2.5 micrometers or smaller and made from solids and liquid droplets. The EPA offers the width of a single strand of hair as an example to understand the particle size. According to the study, the tiny size of these particles makes them inhalable, threatening damage to the respiratory system, and PM 2.5 is responsible for 85,000 to 200,000 excess or preventable deaths per year in the U...

10 Black climate leaders fighting for environmental and racial justice This Earth Day, were celebrating just a few #BlackandGreen leaders whove made a mark on the climate movement. (L-R) Environmental activists Leah Thomas and Rue Mapp; and EPA Administrator Michael Regan (Photo: Contrary to what we see in the mainstream, the climate movement is not predominantly white. Though a failure to tell a full history and a lack of racial representation within the organizational sphere, p...

MARQUETTE, MI - Roger Robert Turner, 78, of Marquette passed away early Tuesday morning, March 23, 2021, at Norlite Nursing Center. Roger was born August 21,

President Joe Biden (left) greets John Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate, on Jan. 27 as he arrives at the White House to speak on climate change. (Photo: Mandel Ngan/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) In February, Beverly Wright linked the legacy of slavery and the Jim Crow era with energy development. In March, President Joe Biden appointed Wright to his White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council.  Wright, the founder of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice,...

Posted on Apr 8, 2021 She says strategies such as carbon trading and carbon taxes must also protect vulnerable communities. Beverly Wright (Photo credit: University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability / Flickr) Burning fossil fuels at power plants and factories not only produces carbon pollution, it also releases other toxic air pollutants that can harm the health of nearby residents. Those residents are disproportionately low-income people of color. Beverly Wright is founde...

BOILING POINT and  DISRUPT  AND DISMANTLE will air Tuesday, March 16 and Wednesday, March 17 respectively. See below for a breakdown of this week’s episodes and be sure to tune in. Tuesday, March 16 at 11pm/10C  BOILING POINT – “HURRICANE KATRINA”: After the devastating 2005 natural disaster, New Orleans faces further misery from an inadequate and biased response to a crisis that disproportionately impacted communities of color. The episode features intervi...

Black Americans have disproportionately suffered from pollution. It’s time for a new policy. Vox.com 2/26/2021 Rachel Ramirez © Julie Dermansky for Vox Environmental justice activist Sharon Lavigne stands outside her home in St. James, Louisiana, on February 23, 2021. Sharon Lavigne has lived in St. James Parish, Louisiana, a predominantly Black community, all her life. She remembers when the air wasn’t covered with thick gray smog, when the water was still safe to drin...

Hazel Johnson (1935-2011) is considered by many to be the mother of environmental justice. For more than 30 years, she pressed local officials and corporations to clean up toxic waste and pollution in her southeast Chicago community of Altgeld Gardens. (Courtesy of People for Community Recovery) She was a community activist. She was an ambassador of Altgeld Gardens. She was an early mentor to Barack Obama. She was a "thorn in the side" of the Chicago waste industry. She was a ...

comments This post originally appeared on Grist. Grist is a nonprofit news agency working toward a planet that doesnt burn and a future that doesnt suck. Sign up to receive Grists top stories in your inbox. Environmental justice isnt just a buzzword or hashtag for Dr. Beverly Wright — its what helps her get out of bed every morning. For the last 35 years, fighting for her Louisiana communitys access to a healthy and safe environment has been her mission, and its put her in rooms with the last...

Overview It is widely recognized that the environmental justice movement first gained traction in 1982 in a predominately African-American community in Warren County, North Carolina.  University of Michigan professors Bunyan Bryant (a graduate of EMU) and Paul Mohai were pioneers in the movement.  Bunyan Bryant—who in 1972 had become the first African American to join the SNRE faculty—attended a meeting at the Federation of Southern Cooperative in Sumter County.  Shortly after, he joined...