Environmental Justice

Your Help Needed: Exelon-Pepco Make Bad Deal With DC

February 26, 2016 Mike Ewall, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Corporatism, Energy, Environmental Justice, health

By Mike Ewall of Energy Justice Network. Washington, DC - The effort by nuclear utility giant, Exelon, to swallow up our local electric utility (Pepco) was just DENIED again today by DC's Public Service Commission (PSC)! This merger would have formed the nation's largest electric utility, raised rates for DC residents, and would have harmed renewable energy efforts while helping subsidize ailing nuclear power plants elsewhere in the country. This is a great victory, as Mayor Bowser sought to overturn the PSC's previous rejection of the merger with some serious arm-twisting and a settlement that failed to address the underlying problems with the merger.

Residents Of South Baltimore To Sue Over Incinerator

February 11, 2016 United Workers, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Environment, Environmental Justice, Environmental racism, Incinerators, Racism

By United Workers. Residents of South Baltimore filed a notice of intent to sue a New York-based developer over plans to build what would be the largest trash-burning incinerator in the U.S. Many residents of the Curtis Bay, Brooklyn, and Brooklyn Park neighborhoods closest to the incinerator site – including a student-led organization called Free Your Voice – are fighting the proposed 4,000-ton-per-day trash burning incinerator because of the air pollution that it would add to a neighborhood already suffering from toxic air emissions. "The incinerator would add more brain damaging lead and mercury to my community which is already the most polluted in the state,” said Destiny Watford, Curtis Bay resident and leader with Free Your Voice. “This would violate our basic human right to live in a healthy community.”

Poor More Likely To Live Near Chemical Hazard

January 31, 2016 Amanda Starbuck, www.foreffectivegov.org Educate! Environmental Justice, Environmental racism, Inequality, Poor people, Toxic Chemicals

By Amanda Starbuck for Center for Effective Government. The Center for Effective Government released a new report and interactive map to coincide with the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. The report demonstrates that the struggle for social justice is far from over. Across the country people of color and the poor are disproportionately impacted by chemical facility hazards, and in many areas, the amount of inequality is profound. We mapped all 12,000+ facilities reporting to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Risk Management Program (RMP). These facilities use large enough amounts of extremely hazardous chemicals that they must submit risk and response plans to the EPA. Communities near these facilities face the greatest danger from a toxic chemical release or explosion and are often exposed to toxic emissions on a daily basis. We compared the demographics of people living within one mile of these dangerous facilities to the rest of the population. The results are stark.

Ken Saro-Wiwa And The Power Of Resistance

October 29, 2015 Ken Henshaw, www.redpepper.org.uk Resist! Environmental Justice, Nigeria

By Ken Henshaw for Red Pepper - On 10 November, it will be 20 years since Ken Saro-Wiwa, president of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), and eight other Ogoni leaders were hanged by the military dictatorship in Nigeria. Known as the Ogoni Nine, their crime was demanding a share of the proceeds of oil exploitation. The Niger Delta covers a huge area of some 27,000 square miles on Nigeria’s southern coast. Once almost all tropical rainforest, it has one of the highest levels of biodiversity on earth and is home to 31 million people. Ogoniland comprises 400 square miles in the eastern delta. Shell-BP found oil there in the 1950s and Shell continued to extract oil from the region until MOSOP’s campaign of nonviolent resistance mobilised 300,000 people to demand environmental and social justice and forced the company to stop in 1993.

EPA Draft Plan Would Perpetuate Environmental Racism

October 19, 2015 Kristen Lombardi, www.publicintegrity.org Resist! Environment, Environmental Justice

By Kristen Lombardi for The Center for Public Integrity - While touting the importance of environmental justice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is pushing a draft “framework” for tackling the problem that lacks substance, residents of polluted communities, advocates and agency employees say. Last week, the EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice released more than 600 public comments filed by environmental groups, trade associations, academics and citizens on what it calls the “EJ 2020 Action Agenda,” a proposed plan for advancing environmental justice over the next five years. The little-noticed release included commentary from activists, industry representatives, state regulators and city officials, among others.

The Sun As Center Of New Campaign For Economic & Racial Justice

September 22, 2015 George Lakey, www.wagingnonviolence.org Strategize! Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Racial Justice

By George Lakey in Waging Non-Violence - Another indication of how crazy this country has become: Some people are coming out against solar energy. Solar technology has dropped in cost to become competitive with other sources for electricity. Some energy companies are apparently worried that their fossil fuel and nuclear sources will become financial liabilities; coal already is with the new EPA regulations. Instead of welcoming the opportunity to come into the new age of renewable energy, the dinosaurs among us are resisting the change. In over 20 states there is push-back, reportedly coordinated by the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, supported by fossil fuel kings the Koch Brothers. One method is to take away subsidies given to homeowners who want to solarize their roofs. Another is to charge an additional fee for homeowners who succeed.

Best Hope For The Future: Uniting Labor, Climate & Racial Justice

September 9, 2015 Aaron Mair, Estela Vazquez, and Lenore Friedlaender, www.sierraclub.org Strategize! Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, Racial Justice

By Aaron Mair, Estela Vazquez, and Lenore Friedlaender - This Labor Day, we are joining together to celebrate the contributions of workers of all races, ethnicities, and nationalities to the struggle to hold our country true to the promise of a political and economic democracy, "with liberty and justice for all." We recognize that the movement for a truly just society is much stronger when we join forces. The same interests who stand in the way of workers' struggles for economic justice are standing in the way of environmental justice and a clean energy economy, and they are standing in the way of racial and immigrant justice. Together, we are celebrating the burgeoning movements, many led by youth, people of color, and women but benefitting all of us. We embrace those who work to build bridges between our movements and reject the legacy of an outdated agenda that fosters institutionalized police violence, and social, economic and political inequalities that have systematically disempowered Native Americans and Communities of Color.

Global Trade And Destruction Of The Amazon

August 25, 2015 Jesse Prentice-Dunn and Ilana Solomon, www.sierraclub.org Educate! Environmental Justice, Extinction, Rainforest, TPP

By Jesse Prentice-Dunn and Ilana Solomon for the Sierra Club. For decades, crews of illegal loggers have traveled deep into Peru’s Amazon rainforest, cutting valuable hardwoods for sale on the international market while threatening indigenous communities, our environment, and the climate. Rampant corruption has plagued Peru’s forest sector, allowing timber mafias to use fraudulent documents in order to obtain permits that they use to illegally harvest timber. According to a study by the World Bank, up to 80 percent of the timber exported from Peru has illegal origins. A new documentary from Al Jazeera shows just how widespread illegal logging is in Peru and how that illegal wood is making its way to the United States.

93 Orgs Urge EPA To Consider Prisoners In Environmental Justice

July 20, 2015 Human Rights Defense Center, www.nationinside.org Educate! Environmental Justice, Mass Incarceration, Prison Industrial Complex, Prisons

By Human Rights Defense Center in Nation Inside - The Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC) submitted a public comment to the Environmental Protection Agency today that provides input on the agency’s EJ 2020 Action Agenda Framework, highlighting the lack of consideration for environmental justice among the millions of prisoners in the United States. The comment was co-signed by 93 social justice, environmental and prisoners’ rights organizations from across the country. “It’s encouraging to see the EPA attempting to increase the effectiveness of protecting vulnerable communities that have been overburdened by industrial pollution, but a significant component is missing when impacts on millions of prisoners and their families are ignored,” said Panagioti Tsolkas, coordinator of HRDC’s Prison Ecology Project.

Unstoppable Alliance: Labor, Environment And Indigenous

July 17, 2015 Steve Cornwell, www.rabble.ca Strategize! Environmental Justice, Indigenous Peoples, Labor Unions

By Steve Cornwell in Rabble - I was at the Battle in Seattle. You had the community activists, environmentalists, and you had a lot people from around the world and different organizations coming into Seattle. The labour movement had its own separate demonstration in a football stadium five miles out of town in a football field. There were all these wonderful speeches taking place in this football field. But downtown Seattle was erupting with running battles between police, environmentalists, students and activists from around the world. We were completely disconnected. I thought "wow, now I can see why sometimes these other organizations say to the labour movement that we don't see you guys involved in the fight." Even though we think we're supportive of all of their issues, we seem to be doing it apart from them.

Residents ‘Terrified’: Williams Transco Natural Gas Pipeline Rupture

June 12, 2015 Emerson Urry, www.environews.tv Resist! Environmental Justice, Oil & Gas, Pennsylvania, Pipeline

By Emerson Urry in EnviroNews — A group by the name of Beyond Extreme Energy sent in a fresh-on-the-wire press release to EnviroNews USA on June 11, 2015. The subject: Ongoing outrage and fear, near the Pennsylvania community of Unityville, over a Williams Companies, Inc., natural gas spill on the Transco pipeline two days ago. Local media reported the incident occurred on tuesday night at around 9:40 P.M. and that residents up to a mile away were rocked by an explosion followed by a prolonged “jet engine” type sound and the smell of gas. In turn, the incident resulted in a fearful disorientation throughout the surrounding communities. As many as 130 nearby residents were evacuated from their homes for “several hours,” according to the Lancaster Online.

Paul Ryan Adds Amendment To Trade Bill To Block Climate Deals

June 12, 2015 Clare Foran, www.nationaljournal.com Educate! Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Free Trade, TPP

By Clare Foran in National Journal - If House Republicans get their way, President Obama won't be able to use any trade pact to strike a deal on climate change. Late Tuesday evening, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin offered up an amendment to a customs bill that would "ensure that trade agreements do not require changes to U.S. law or obligate the United States with respect to global warming or climate change." The customs bill is intended to amend so-called "fast-track" trade legislation that could see a House vote as early as this Friday. Fast-track would allow Congress an up-or-down vote on trade deals negotiated by the White House. The trade legislation sets out negotiating priorities that Congress expects the White House to abide by when striking international trade deals. House Republicans have promised to reject any deal that does not meet the objectives.

Port Commission Meeting Ends W/ Police Pushing People Out

June 10, 2015 Sydney Brownstone, www.thestranger.com Resist! Environmental Justice, police brutality, Seattle

By Sydney Brownstone in The Stranger - This afternoon's public port commission meeting started with a peaceful die-in staged by Filipino climate activists on the steps of Port in Seattle headquarters. It ended with police officers aggressively pushing people—including one person with a cane who was looking for a disability ramp—out of the building. After the die-in, a group of environmental activists filled most of the chairs in the port commission meeting room, holding signs and waiting for their turn to speak. A couple of people in the room commented loudly and cursed during staff briefings. In response, port commissioners adjourned the meeting before the public comment period. Things quickly escalated from there.

We Must Start ‘Shaming’ Those Who Lie To Us, Destroy Our Climate

June 8, 2015 Nick Fillmore, www.rabble.ca Resist! Canada, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Strategy

By Nick Fillmore in Rabble - Today, when people are being treated unfairly, I see nothing wrong with us expressing our anger. It's the powerful in society who have engineered the belief that expressing anger over social issues is, well, not nice. Remember when the Occupy movement scared the hell out of them? Unfortunately, as individuals we have felt there is nothing we can do to help bring change. But, if thousands of people join in, there is one way we can have an impact. We can begin shaming and embarrassing those in powerful positions who lack decent values and who are ruining our country. Many of them know they are guilty.

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