Amber Reimondo: Taxpayer dollars shouldnât keep uranium mill afloat
A strategic uranium reserve has no place in Joe Bidenâs Build Back Better agenda.
(Corey Robinson | Tribune file photo) Protesters from White Mesa, Utah, march against the White Mesa Mill, the last conventional uranium mill still operating in the U.S. on May 14, 2017.
By Amber Reimondo | Special to The Tribune
  | March 10, 2021, 4:56 p.m.
In late December, as Congress debated how much to spend on COVID-19 relief for Americans struggling to make ends meet, something else was flying under the radar that has serious implications for Utahâs clean water and public health.
It’s invigorating to see some of our leaders finally reckon with the most abiding problem of American climate politics: that green does not always mean equitable.Many well-meaning climate.
Luxury development, Hawai'i coastline Photo credit: Kai Nishiki It’s invigorating to see some of our leaders finally reckon with the most abiding problem of.
29 Jan 2021
Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) introduced on Thursday the ‘‘Environmental Justice Mapping and Data Collection Act of 2021’’ to gather data and direct federal money to communities around the country they say face environmental injustice.
Those injustices, they say, include pollution, police killing black Americans and other minorities, and poverty, among others.
“Environmental justice is racial justice,” Bush, who was a Black Lives Matter activist before winning election to the House of Representatives in 2020, said at the virtual press conference.
President Joe Biden has said he would direct 40 percent of environment-related funding to communities with high numbers of low-income and minority residents. The funding, Biden said, could pay for clean energy and wastewater projects.