Environmental Justice

"Biden Victory to Boost DOJ’s Environmental Agenda, Enforcement"

"The Justice Department’s environment division is poised to ramp up pollution policing and sideline Trump-era policies when President-elect Joe Biden takes office in January—joining agencies across the executive branch in making a sharp turn to the left."

Source: Bloomberg, 11/10/2020

"Some Areas Protected As Formosa’s Louisiana Work Continues"

"A Taiwan-based company and opponents to plans for a $9.4 billion plastics complex have agreed that site preparation can continue except in wetlands and in five known or possible sites of enslaved people’s graves."

Source: AP, 11/05/2020

Polluter Moving From Wealthy, White Home To A Low-Income Latino Area

"Chicago is facing scrutiny from federal housing officials, who are investigating why the city is allowing a chronic polluter to move from the wealthy, largely white North Side to a low-income, predominantly Latino neighborhood near the Indiana border."

Source: Chicago Tribune, 11/04/2020

"Getting the Lead Out: Why Battery Recycling Is a Global Health Hazard"

"From African shantytowns to the backstreets of China’s cities, small-scale businesses that recycle the lead from auto batteries are proliferating. Experts say the pollution from these unregulated operations is a lethal threat – with children being the most vulnerable to poisoning."

Source: YaleE360, 11/03/2020

EPA Staff Slam Trump Anti-Diversity Orders as "Punitive And Demeaning"

"Environmental Protection Agency staffers are organizing against President Donald Trump’s recent executive order banning diversity trainings, mounting what may be the fiercest opposition to Trump administration policy from within to date."

Source: HuffPost, 11/03/2020

"2020 Fires Endangering Uncontacted Amazon Indigenous Groups"

"Amazon fires this year are seriously threatening Indigenous territories in which isolated uncontacted Indigenous groups make their homes. Brazil has an estimated 100+ isolated Indigenous groups living within its borders, more than any other Amazonian nation."

Source: Mongabay, 10/30/2020

"Dozens of Chlorpyrifos Lawsuits Coming Over Children’s Health"

"The recent lawsuits filed against Corteva Inc. and Dow Chemical Co. in California are the beginning of an expected wave of toxic tort cases in the Golden State that take aim at the widely-used insecticide chlorpyrifos."

Source: Bloomberg Environment, 10/30/2020

Trump’s USGS Chief Violated Whistleblower Protection Law, Watchdog Says

"The head of the U.S. Geological Survey violated the federal whistleblower protection law when he retaliated against an agency employee who had filed a complaint about his conduct, according to a new report from the Interior Department’s internal watchdog."

Source: HuffPost, 10/30/2020

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