President-elect Joe Biden campaigned on the most ambitious environmental justice plan ever offered by the nominee of a major political party. His Build Back Better agenda included a commitment to invest 40 percent of his $2 trillion clean energy plan…
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Lurking in sediments and surrounding the precious groundwater beneath our feet is a dangerous toxin: uranium. Scientists have long known this and tested for it…
For the past month, Mary Nichols has been the front-runner to become the next administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Dubbed “the queen of green,” Nichols has been appointed head of the powerful California Air Resources Board (CARB) four times by three different California governors from two different parties…
One of the top contenders to be Joe Biden’s administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is in the middle of the tug of war between those who want her to get the job and those who don’t…
Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services is the first state attorney general to create an environmental justice bureau.
We’ve spent a lot of time in the last few weeks drafting, reviewing, and signing letters on cabinet nominees — some for specific nominees, some against specific people, some general principles. And you deserve to hear what we’ve been doing…
Mykela Patton works for Communities for a Better Environment, a statewide organization in California that has an office in her home city of East Oakland, which, she says, “historically has a lot of discriminatory zoning practices and a lot of industry that has just been rubber-stamped into the community with little or no community input or look at collective harms…”
With a historic election all but in the rear view mirror, a key question is whether and how President-elect Joseph R. Biden, Jr. and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will deliver on the sweeping environmental justice (EJ) agenda advanced on the campaign trail…
The bankruptcy settlement reached between Exide Technologies and the Department of Justice (DOJ), recently inked in a Delaware bankruptcy court, was a bitter pill to swallow for many community members, environmentalists, and officials…