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- by María Paula RubianoByanka Santoyo’s voice breaks while she explains what SprayDays, California’s statewide pesticide notification system, launched on Monday, means to her. “I told my daughter: When I die, I want this to be on my tombstone. I want everyone to know that I fought for you, your future, your family and their future,” she says. Santoyo […]
- by EHN EditorsEditor’s note: This op-ed was written by a group of current and former employees of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), who have asked to remain anonymous due to concerns about retaliation.The Trump administration is making accusations of fraud, waste, and abuse associated with federal environmental justice programs under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) as […]
- by Cami FerrellHOUSTON — Climate activists expressed concern that discussions behind closed doors at the nation’s largest energy conference, CERAWeek by S&P Global, will further contribute to environmental health risks. As energy executives and political leaders across the nation convened for the conference in Houston, Texas this week to discuss the future of energy, representatives from the […]
- by Kristina MarusicPITTSBURGH — The Biden administration pledged more than $53 million to community groups across the country for air monitoring projects in 2022, many of which were just getting underway when Trump took office. Trump issued executive orders that temporarily froze federal funding for environment-related projects (along with other key services and programs across the country), […]
- by EHN EditorsHighlands, Texas is a small community on the outskirts of Houston that sits beside the San Jacinto River Waste Pits Superfund Site. The two pits, just shy of 34 acres combined, were originally built in the 1960s to house waste materials from a paper mill. Last month, based on a request from The Texas Health […]
- by Layla JohnsonI’m a recent high school graduate who lived and breathed for most of my life in Braddock, Pennsylvania, about nine miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Braddock is home to the Edgar Thomson Steel Mill, owned by U.S. Steel, which Nippon Steel recently tried to purchase before the deal was blocked.During the last year of my high […]
- A new tool for communities near Shell’s plastics plant in Pennsylvania provides air quality insightsby Kristina MarusicPITTSBURGH — A local advocacy group has launched a new, real-time air monitoring website for communities impacted by air pollution from Shell’s massive petrochemical complex and other industrial sites in western Pennsylvania.The website, launched by the Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community (BCMAC), and dubbed Eyes on Air, includes data from five new air monitors the […]
- by Cami FerrellPresident Donald Trump has the opportunity to challenge the Biden administration’s hydrogen tax credit rules under the Congressional Review Act, but the clock is ticking. The act only allows for changes within 60 days of the rules’ publication. On March 4, time will run out. Last week representatives from 117 trade associations, energy companies, and […]
- by Kiley Bense, Inside Climate NewsEditor's note: This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here.Read Part I of this story here.YUKON, Pa.—When government inspectors arrived at the hazardous waste landfill here in 2023, they found themselves in a barren and alien landscape […]
- by Kiley Bense, Inside Climate NewsEditor's note: This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here.YUKON, Pa.—In a rural pocket of western Pennsylvania, along the leafy banks of Sewickley Creek, a small, jagged pipe juts just above the waterline, its cement casing carpeted […]
- by Shannon KelleherEditor's note: This story was originally published by The New Lede and is republished here with permission under a Creative Commons license. Concerns are growing about the fate of a Biden-era rule to limit toxic PFAS chemicals in drinking water, with some states moving to introduce laws that would lock in place PFAS protections that […]
- by Matthew TejadaEditor’s note: A version of this op-ed was originally published on Matthew Tejada’s LinkedIn profile.There is a lot of misinformation out there, much of it quite intentional, about what environmental justice, or EJ, is.As a result, billions of dollars in funding and technical assistance that flows directly to communities and their partners has been jeopardized […]