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Robert Bullard Isn’t Done Yet More than 40 years after the Texas Southern University professor researched the first environmental justice case, communities of color still face an uphill battle claiming their right to clean air and a healthy neighborhood. Federal environmental justice legislation could change that. More than 40 years after the Texas Southern University professor researched the first environmental justice case, communities of color still face an uphill battle claiming their rig...

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My Testimony on the CLEAN Future Act and Environmental Justice: Protecting Frontline Communities My Testimony on the CLEAN Future Act and Environmental Justice: Protecting Frontline Communities Adrienne Hollis, Senior Climate Justice and Health Scientist | April 21, 2021, 10:40 am EDT On Thursday, I testified before the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. I am sharing a sig...

The Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change of the Committee on Energy and Commerce will hold a legislative hearing on Thursday, April 15, 2021, at 10:30 a.m. via Cisco WebEx. The hearing is entitled, "The CLEAN Future Act and Environmental Justice: Protecting Frontline Communities."  

Amber Reimondo: Taxpayer dollars shouldn’t keep uranium mill afloat A strategic uranium reserve has no place in Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda. (Corey Robinson | Tribune file photo) Protesters from White Mesa, Utah, march against the White Mesa Mill, the last conventional uranium mill still operating in the U.S. on May 14, 2017. By Amber Reimondo | Special to The Tribune   | March 10, 2021, 4:56 p.m. In late December, as Congress debated how much to spend on COVID-19 rel...

It’s invigorating to see some of our leaders finally reckon with the most abiding problem of American climate politics: that green does not always mean equitable.Many well-meaning climate...

Luxury development, Hawai'i coastline Photo credit: Kai Nishiki It’s invigorating to see some of our leaders finally reckon with the most abiding problem of...

29 Jan 2021 Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) introduced on Thursday the ‘‘Environmental Justice Mapping and Data Collection Act of 2021’’ to gather data and direct federal money to communities around the country they say face environmental injustice. Those injustices, they say, include pollution, police killing black Americans and other minorities, and poverty, among others. “Environmental justice is racial justice,” Bush, who was a Black Lives Matter activist before ...

Kentucky. mitch mcconnell and rand paul. >> these are not theoretical threats, mr. president. they are with us every day. we have to face up to them. we shouldnt be disarming unilaterally as our enemies grow more sophisticated and aggressive. >> the people who argue the world will end and we are overrun by jihadists. they want to take a little bit of your liberty, but they get it by making you afraid. >> reporter: in the end, by a vote of 77-17, the senate did agree to proceed to debate on the u...

Lady spent time with the biden family on sunday. they spent about 30 minutes at their home in washington, d.c. john and christine. >> joe biden known as amtrak joe. he would go back and forth as his job as a senator after he lost his wife. he would go home to delaware every night. he said i realize at one point i needed my kids more than they needed me. >> he said that just last weekend at a commencement address. our hearts go out to the family. john kerrys doctor jumped on a plane to switzerl...