Environmental Justice

What Happens When A So-Called Climate Solution Risks Your Community’s Safety?

"In the St. Charles Parish neighborhood, only a tall green chain-link fence stands between a block of homes and the future site of a facility that may, among other things, store carbon in efforts to limit planetary heating."

Source: Vox, 08/14/2024

Environmental Justice Sets Harris Apart From Biden And Draws GOP Fire

"Vice President Kamala Harris has spent more than a decade advocating for Black, Hispanic and impoverished communities struggling with pollution — an insurgent segment of the environmental movement that never entirely warmed up to President Joe Biden."

Source: Politico, 08/14/2024

"Extreme Heat Poses New Challenge For Aid Agencies In Gaza"

"In Gaza, the sky is full of menace. As well as the missiles that rain down on schools and shelters, the brutal rays of the sun have made the summer unbearable for those struggling to survive in a ravaged landscape of ruins and rubble."

Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 08/14/2024
August 30, 2024

DEADLINE: IJNR Critical Minerals Institute

The Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources invites applications for an Institute travelling to Arizona and California, Oct 6-12, 2024, to prepare journalists to accurately report on the impacts of the coming increase in domestic mineral production. Apply by Aug 30.

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Wash. State Solar Project Paused Amid Concern About Native Cultural Sites

"A company developing an industrial-scale solar panel array on Badger Mountain in Eastern Washington has paused permitting activities on the project amid concerns about impacts to Indigenous cultural sites." "The decision comes after an investigation by High Country News and ProPublica found that a land survey funded by the developer omitted more than a dozen sites of archaeological or cultural significance."

Source: High Country News, 08/13/2024

"How Climate Change Could Make Pesticides Even Deadlier"

"As this year’s temperatures continue to break records, farmworkers who toil in the heat remain one of the groups most vulnerable to heat-related illnesses. But another element of their jobs is making extreme heat even more dangerous: pesticide drift."

Source: Mother Jones, 08/13/2024

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