#environmental-justice

#environmental-justice

Donald Trump's administration has launched a sweeping assault on "diversity, equality, and inclusion" by banning public anti-discrimination efforts that aim to benefit historically disadvantaged groups.

The Bhopal Gas Disaster in late 1984 led to over 22,000 deaths and widespread poisoning in Bhopal, highlighting the severe and long-lasting impacts of industrial negligence.

The ruling allows an appraiser's affidavit in the case to be added to the record for standing purposes (to show harm) only.

The name Erin Brockovich is now so symbolic in the U.S. that it is also used as a verb: to Erin Brockovich something means to investigate it to the bitter end; in other words, refusing to give up.

"Despite decades of harm, the Department of Transportation is pushing a plan to widen the Cross Bronx by adding another highway structure over the Bronx River and Starlight Park."

"They understand that what they're doing is devastating, and they're doing it anyway," says Astra Taylor, emphasizing the danger posed by right-wing movements.

Asthma is a preventive condition. No one should die of asthma.

We are urging you to halt NYC DOT's proposed multi-billion-dollar project to rebuild and potentially expand the BQE's triple cantilever, a project that would embed this malignant roadway in our communities for generations to come.

"The decision does not preclude the district attorney from seeking criminal charges against the company and its employees in the future, or pursuing a civil case against them."

At just nine years old, Patience Nabukalu experienced profound loss due to climate-induced flooding, prompting her to become an activist championing the voices of affected Ugandan communities.

"This is how you cancel an agreement aimed at rebuilding the sewage infrastructure in an impoverished county in Alabama. You declare that agreement was cancelled because it was an 'illegal' DEI arrangement because it was aimed at helping Black people, and that's all you need to say."

"Research conducted immediately after the fires found that Black homeowners in Altadena were nearly 1.5 times more likely to have suffered major damage or complete destruction of their homes, compared to their non-Black neighbors."

"We were all just so happy about this grant that's going to literally change some people's lives," says Vide Kroto, the foundation's executive director.