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NAACP Report: Some Gulf Coast Oil Spill Toxins Are Harder to See
by Yvonne Yen Liu on April 20 2011, 6:08PM
From rising unemployment to domestic violence and depression, communities of color are still being hit hardest one year after the disaster.
Topics: Environment
Residents Still Search for Answers in BP Oil Spill Disaster
by Jamilah King on April 19 2011, 4:52PM
While the oil may appear to be gone, the nation’s worst environmental disaster is still being felt by residents.
Topics: Environment
The Radioactive Racism Behind Nuclear Energy
by Michelle Chen on March 23 2011, 10:26AM
At every point in the nuclear production chain, the industry has sloughed a disproportionate share of the risk on marginalized communities.
Topics: Environment, Global Justice
White House Could Be Forced To Re-Open Yucca Mountain Talks
by Julianne Hing on March 16 2011, 5:10PM
Energy Secretary Steven Chu told Congress that, if the administration loses a pending legal challenge, the idea Native Americans have fought may be back.
Topics: Environment
GOP Reopens Fight Over Nuclear Waste in Sacred Yucca Mountain
by Julianne Hing on March 15 2011, 11:53AM
Before Japan’s crisis, the push for more nuclear energy in the U.S. revived a fight Native Americans have been waging for years.
Topics: Environment
A Food Crisis Is Coming, But Urban America Already Has It Solved
by Imara Jones on February 16 2011, 11:07AM
Urban farms grew out of crisis in black and brown neighborhoods. Now they’re an innovation all of America desperately needs.
Topics: Environment, How We Eat
Chicago Demolition Sheds Light on Public Housing Debate
by Jamilah King on December 7 2010, 2:19PM
Just how useful is urban redevelopment to low-income residents?
Topics: Environment
Dispatch From Cancun: Developing Paradise in the Suicide Capital
by Roberto Lovato on December 3 2010, 10:06AM
As world leaders gather for climate talks on one side of town, Roberto Lovato visits the other, where the turmoil of climate change threatens hearts and minds, too.
Topics: Dispatches, Environment
Coal Pollution Will Kill 13K in 2010, Clustered in Cities, Says Study
by Michelle Chen on September 14 2010, 11:35AM
The good news is that this injustice can be at least partially remedied through human action.
Topics: Environment
How the Discovery Channel Gunman’s Green Activism Turned to Hate
by Julianne Hing on September 2 2010, 4:36PM
A growing sect of the environmental movement is being co-opted by white nationalists.
Topics: Environment
Is Environmental Injustice Morphing Little Girls’ Bodies?
by Michelle Chen on August 10 2010, 1:27PM
The latest research suggests an array of social and environmental factors may be causing girls bodies to develop prematurely, especially girls of color.
Topics: Environment, Health, On Gender
Here’s Where BP is Dumping Its Oil Spill Waste
by Daisy Hernandez on August 4 2010, 12:27PM
More than half of the landfills EPA has approved are in communities where a majority of residents are people of color.
Topics: Environment
BP’s Dumping Oil-Spill Waste in Communities of Color, Study Finds
by Michelle Chen on August 3 2010, 8:39AM
More than half of BP’s sites for disposing of cleaned-up oil and waste are in places where the majority of residents are of color.
Topics: Environment, On Gender
If the BP Oil Spill Had Hit Your Hometown
by Jorge Rivas on June 16 2010, 1:29PM
The volume of oil gushing into the Gulf is hard to imagine. An enlightening, if disturbing mapping tool helps you see what 2.5 million gallons a day looks like in your own backyard.
Topics: Environment, Gulf Oil Spill
BP Cleanup Worker Health Issues Add Up, And So Do Claims
by Julianne Hing on June 10 2010, 7:29PM
Topics: Environment
Cops Call Oil Spill Workers Immigrant Gangsters
by Brentin Mock on June 9 2010, 12:00PM
A sheriff has set up checkpoints and called federal agents to BP’s cleanup sites because he says “illegal aliens” are building “criminal enterprises”—just like they did after Katrina.
Topics: Environment, Gulf Oil Spill, Immigration
Texas Settlement Could Be Blueprint for Disaster Recovery
by Michelle Chen on June 8 2010, 10:59AM
While the government struggles to confront the mounting catastrophe on the Gulf Coast, a legal settlement in Texas is set to put hundreds of millions in long overdue relief funds into the hands of disaster victims. Since the 2008 hurricane…
Topics: Environment
Feds Target Oil Spill Workers in Immigration Probe
by Kai Wright on June 4 2010, 4:18PM
Federal officials have been targeting BP’s job sites in Louisiana in a hunt for undocumented workers who are risking their lives to clean up the disastrous oil spill.
Topics: Environment, Gulf Oil Spill, Immigration
BP Lawyers-Up as DOJ Announces Criminal Probe
by Julianne Hing on June 2 2010, 3:49PM
Eric Holder announces that the Department of Justice is opening a criminal probe into BP’s oil spill disaster—and NYT says BP’s got mobs of connected lawyers.
Topics: Environment, Gulf Oil Spill
BP Threatens to Fire Workers Who Use Their Own Safety Gear
by Julianne Hing on June 2 2010, 12:07PM
Workers report being threatened with pink slips if they use safety equipment that doesn’t come from BP. Problem is, BP still hasn’t provided any safety equipment.
Topics: Environment
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