Archive: Environmental Justice
This week two major publications were released that highlight public health impacts on people living next to oil and gas operations. The Environmental Health News released their investigation looking at how chemicals associated with oil and gas are present at levels 90 times higher than the average in families’ urine, including samples from children. The […]
Image from CCJ’s climate march Over the past two weeks, President Biden has already taken some bold actions to protect our environment and climate, like rejoining the Paris Agreement and stopping the Keystone XL Pipeline. In the President’s actions, we must ensure that Black, Indigenous, Brown, and working-class communities’ needs are put first as the […]
Incinerator (waste-to-energy plant; waste incineration plant), Industry park Höchst, Hesse, Germany.. Norbert Nagel, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons When we hear the term “recycling,” many of us think about glass, paper, or plastic being sent to a facility to be broken down and then re-constructed into another product. However, House Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, […]
Citing the outpouring of concern from hundreds of local residents who raised their voices, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has informed the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill that they must provide more information about how they are planning to operate. Landfills in Pennsylvania are not allowed to accept liquid waste, but leachate is a byproduct found […]
In the summer of 2003, I went to Ecuador to do six weeks of preliminary research with the Sarayaku Kichwa (also spelled Quichua), one of 13 indigenous groups living there. I had contacts within the community, and they knew I was coming to Puyo, a town on the edge of the Oriente, the Amazonian region […]
Many residents that we’ve worked with for over a decade were told by state officials and oil and gas operators that drilling and fracking were safe. Community members living next to these heavily industrial operations were rightly skeptical. The Grand Jury investigations have revealed that on at least two sites, Range failed to protect the […]