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Environmental justice isn t just a buzzword or hashtag for Dr. Beverly Wright it s what helps her get out of bed every morning. For the last 35 years, fighting for her Louisiana community s access to a healthy and safe environment has been her mission, and it s put her in rooms with the last three Democratic presidents.
Wright s federal advocacy began in the early 1990s, when she worked on the country s first executive order focused on environmental justice, which then-President Bill Clinton signed in 1994. Executive Order 12898, or EO 12898, instructed federal agencies to pursue environmental justice policies that would limit the disproportionately high and adverse effects of environmental harms on low-income communities and people of color, who are more likely to be
Biden s oil & gas halt will be death knell to Louisiana coastal communities, officials say
Lafourche Parish is home to a slew of oil and gas jobs. Archie Chaisson fears the ban will impact more than just the parish’s oil and gas workers. Author: Paul Dudley / Eyewitness News Published: 10:43 PM CST January 26, 2021 Updated: 8:51 AM CST January 27, 2021
LAFOURCHE PARISH, La. President Joe Biden will be announcing a moratorium on new oil and gas leasing on U.S. lands as the administration moves to change Trump-era policies on the environment and address climate change, according to a report from the Associated Press published Tuesday.
Saving the planet starts with saving the communities the fossil fuel industry tends to trample.
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On a
chilly December morning, Gabriel Jamison stood in front of a construction site
in Brownsville, Brooklyn, with a sign and a megaphone. “National Grid has the
nerve to sit there and come into a low-income neighborhood,” Jamison said, as
National Grid employees continued to work in the background. “We’re not going
to tolerate that.” Surrounded by a handful of other demonstrators, Jamison was
protesting the expansion of a fracking pipeline by National Grid, an energy
company that serves New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Within two hours, they could call the