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Living on Earth: Beyond the headlines
Peter Dykstra and Steve Curwood on a toxic, tarry 150 year-old blob in Lake Ontario.
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As the nation reels, Trump Administration continues environmental policy rollbacks
There’s a whirlwind of distressing news these days. Rage over racism; fretting over finance; and coronavirus may just be getting its boots on. It’s all a perfect time to unleash some quiet mayhem on the environment. It’s all hard to write about, and I’m sorry, I know it’s equally hard to read about. But it’s…
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Regulatory rollbacks are “environmental racism in action”
Editor’s note: Environmental insults and police violence aimed at communities of color are interconnected issues. As the nation grieves over the killing of George Floyd, we are revisiting stories from our newsroom over the past couple years that examine environmental racism in Black communities. In March, Derrick Jackson wrote about how The Trump Administration’s plans…
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Environmental injustice in Pittsburgh: Poor, minority neighborhoods see higher rates of deaths from air pollution
PITTSBURGH—If air pollution levels in all of Allegheny County were lowered to match the levels seen in its least-polluted neighborhoods, about 100 fewer residents would die of coronary heart disease every year, according to a new study. A majority of the lives that would be saved by such an initiative are in the region’s poor…
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A threat from above: Plastic rains down on US National Parks and Wilderness areas
Last August, scientists delivered the chilling news that microplastics suspended in the Earth’s atmosphere were being deposited in remote areas of the Arctic and Europe. Now researchers report similar microplastic accumulation in iconic American protected areas including the Grand Canyon and Joshua Tree. Publishing their results today in Science, the researchers estimate total yearly plastics…
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“We have systemic issues, we have cyclical issues”
Editor’s note: Environmental insults and police violence aimed at communities of color are interconnected issues. As the nation grieves over the killing of George Floyd, this week we are revisiting stories from our newsroom over the past couple years that examine environmental racism in Black communities. In 2018, our Pittsburgh reporter Kristina Marusic talked with…
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Considering the phenomenon of environmental injustice as a form of criminalization
Editor’s note: Environmental insults and police violence aimed at communities of color are interconnected issues. As the nation grieves over the killing of George Floyd, this week we are revisiting stories from our newsroom over the past couple years that examine environmental racism in Black communities. In December, David Pellow, a professor of Environmental Studies…
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Court compels the EPA to cancel use of a widespread herbicide. What comes next?
I have followed major pesticide-related court actions for about 40 years. The June 3, 2020, decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overruling federal registrations allowing “over-the-top” uses of dicamba on genetically modified soybeans and cotton stands out in three ways. First, the court’s 56-page order conveys a remarkable grasp of the issue and…
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“Being in a black neighborhood, they didn’t care”
Editor’s note: Environmental insults and police violence aimed at communities of color are interconnected issues. As the nation grieves over the killing of George Floyd, we are revisiting stories from our newsroom over the past couple years that examine environmental racism in Black communities. North Birmingham, Alabama, has long been a hotbed of environmental injustice.…
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Much of America has the wrong “complexion for protection”
Editor’s note: Environmental insults and police violence aimed at communities of color are interconnected issues. As the nation grieves over the killing of George Floyd, we are revisiting stories from our newsroom over the past couple years that examine environmental racism in Black communities. In June 2012, Environmental Health News launched a multi-week series, examining…
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