“Paul Billings, senior vice president of the American Lung Association, called the EPA’s decision “profoundly disappointing” and a missed opportunity to protect public health and promote #environmentaljustice. A recent report by the lung association showed that minority communities bear a disproportionate burden from ground-level ozone…” #ClimateAction
https://apnews.com/article/epa-ozone-pollution-biden-smog-lung-6688a04e605dbba9c7e348d6646783fc

It's day 6 of the #AlterNetSummerSchool in beautiful and sunny Peyresq and we kick-off with Bruno Locatelli talking about "Social-Ecological transformations: Power and justice in the co-production of ecosystem services in Peru"

#SocialEcologicalSystems
#TransformativeChange
#EnvironmentalJustice
#EcosystemServices

RLM Arts poster catalog, p679: "Ken Saro-Wiwa" (1996)

Saro-Wiwa, a cultural worker and environmental leader, fought for Nigeria's Ogoni people in defense of their land and rights, challenging the Royal Dutch Shell Co. and military dictatorship. With eight others, he was hanged in 1995 by a military tribunal. Their spirit lives on.

Poster with his inspiring words: https://www.rlmartstudio.com/product/saro-wiwa/
Use code EDUCATE for 25% off thru 9/5/23.

#MastoArt #EnvironmentalJustice #Nigeria #FossilFuels #LandBack

OnlineFirst - "Scope-shifting: Bureaucracy, Energy Justice and the Dakota Access Pipeline" by Brittany Bondi and Leah S. Horowitz:

#bureaucracy #DakotaAccessPipeline #energyjustice #environmentaljustice

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/25148486231192096

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the extreme heat has created an unusual gap between the end of the berry-picking season and the start of the apple season, meaning some employees may wait weeks without pay before they can resume work.

“Usually they’ll go from cherries and berries and they’ll wait a week and they go into apples,” said Velasquez, “But if you add climate change, they might wait 19 days to be transferred.”

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#environmentaljustice
#drought

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/08/29/Extreme-Weather-Migrant-Farmworkers/

https://youtu.be/iWNC-bJFZxU

Tim Cywinski, organizer for the @VASierraClub , came to talk to us about the #toxic #pipeline that #TCEnergy and #ColumbiaGas intend to expand in the city of #PetersburgVA . The #SierraClub , this city's #NAACP , #PetersburgMutualAid , and other local organizations are about to begin a #grassroots campaign to fight against these #corporateinterests . More info to come!

Join us in this fight and tell a friend!

#nopipelines
#EnvironmentalRacism
#EnvironmentalJustice

'Threatened and vulnerable’: Cop City activists labeled as terrorists pay high price

"After hearing about the Cop City arrestees, journalist Will Potter, author of Green Is the New Red, said it “feels like flashbacks”. Potter’s book details the federal government’s legal campaigns against animal rights and environmental groups such as Earth First and the Animal Liberation Front, in the 1990s and 2000s.

“From my reporting on the history of government tactics,” he said, “fear is always used to send a message to the larger movement – and also to tie up energy, momentum, money and time.”

The idea, Potter said, is to marginalize dissent; his research has led him to doubt “if the charges actually matter” to the state. “I’m not convinced … the plan is to solve a crime, or to protect the public,” he said. “It’s all political theater.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/28/copy-city-atlanta-protesters-lives-domestic-terrorist-label

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #PoliceState #democracy #environmentaljustice #environmentalracism #copcity

'I’m not the guilty one’: the water protector facing jail time for trying to stop a pipeline

Mylene Vialard goes on trial this week for opposing a pipeline on Indigenous land amid warnings peaceful protest is under threat."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/27/climate-activist-mylene-vialard-line-3-pipeline-protest-climate-activism-crackdown

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #indigenous #environmentaljustice #democracy #waterislife

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But then, Sarnia's ugliness reared up. In the emergency room, a doctor looked at an X-ray of my dad's lungs, looked frankly at my stricken parents and said, "There is something wrong with this town. This is a very sick town."

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#environmentaljustice

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sunsets-and-smokestacks-finding-beauty-in-the-city-that-stole-my-father-s-health-1.6938187

The #inequality in the #bondmarket perpetuates a cycle of #debt and #disinvestment in #Black communities, but it also has huge implications for #environmentaljustice and #climateresilience. If local leaders can’t raise money to protect #water lines and prepare for #floods, their constituents will end up reliant on decaying and vulnerable #public infrastructure. 
“#Race should certainly not affect the pricing of #municipalbonds,” Smull told Grist. 

From: @MotherJones
https://press.coop/@MotherJones/110955415883626427

All our rights are based on a functioning ecosystem, locally and worldwide. Without ecosystems we can't breathe, we can't drink, we can't eat, we can't rest. So I think environmentalism is the most existentially crucial rights issue. But without human justice, inseparably, our right to exist and yours is likewise at risk. #environmentaljustice

Important read from @austiejfish on #EnvironmentalJustice #racism #airpollution

They all oppose the air quality regulation that is meant to prevent and mitigate the effects of things like the Atkore United Poly Systems fire.

https://sourcenm.com/2023/08/17/albuquerque-plastic-fire-gives-air-regulators-this-moment-in-history-to-make-the-right-decision/

Our ongoing work spans various areas: 💼⚖️ #ClimateLitigation, 🛤️ Legal routes to #DeepDecarb, 🏙️🌍 Urban climate policies, 🤝 Pro bono backing for #RenewableEnergy ventures, 🌱🔌 Tech for negative emissions, 💪🔬 Safeguarding #ClimateScience, 🌿 Promoting #EnvironmentalJustice & more! Check it out: https://climate.law.columbia.edu/content/cross-cutting-issues-initiatives 🌐👇 #ClimateAction

If you’ve spent any time in the suburbs of North America, you’ve probably marveled at some immaculate and lush green lawns at some point. But between individual cost, water usage, pesticides, racialized class and more - lawns really aren’t all they’re cut out to be.
#environmentalism, #environmentaljustice, #racializedclass
https://youtu.be/EwVovJgwbJQ

Gizmodo: Putin’s War Against Ukraine Is Slaughtering Dolphins in the Black Sea https://gizmodo.com/russia-war-ukraine-killing-dolphins-in-the-black-sea-1850762194 #internationalcriminallaw #environmentaljustice #bottlenosedolphin #environmentallaw #harbourporpoise #marinemammal #environment #pawelgoldin #jojomehta #porpoise #ecocide #dolphin #putin #dam

A cute old lady #anarchist gave us this flyer today at the #farmersmarket while telling us about #EnvironmentalJustice and who #DorothyDay was. Now we're giving it to you!

#Virginia
#PetersburgVA
#Environment
#Environmental
#Environmentalism
#EnvironmentalRacism
#EnvironmentalHazard

The Legal Pathways to #DeepDecarb team brings you its August newsletter:
✨ Spotlight on the 5 model laws addressing #environmentaljustice, as part of a collaboration between the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law & WE ACT
📘 New external resources
📅 Upcoming event
📰 In the news
https://mailchi.mp/lpdd.org/legal-pathways-to-deep-decarbonization-in-the-us-august

The sixteen young people fought
For the right to be taught
The importance of climate change
In policy to arrange
The judge ruled in their favor, his precedence to flaunt

#montana #climatechange #environmentaljustice #youthactivism #ode #poetry

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/montana-judge-landmark-climate-change-rcna99992

https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2023-08-15/despite-climate-goals-california-will-let-three-gas-plants-keep-running-boiling-point

#RegulatoryCapture: instead of using a settlement to #electrify homes impacted by a massive #gasleak, SoCalGas will get a break, the CEC will extend the license to operate turbines whose #EnvironmentalJustice health impacts are in #lowincome #communities, and everyone will wait for Federal Inflation Reduction Act to replace methane appliances.

#ParisUnAligned #DeterioratingCarbonSinks #DisposablePeople

@fulelo @farhanasultana @ericholthaus
Here some extracts of the article (to make you read it, it's totally worth 😉):

"While the global community congratulates itself on achieving what is politically possible, we cannot overlook the anemic nature of the agreement considering the magnitude of the problem. It will not avoid the death of millions – because they simply do not matter.” (Pulido, 2018, p. 128)
[...]
Ernstson and Swyngedouw (2019) termed the depoliticizing technocratic discourse that coexists with obscene capitalist accumulation and waste as the Anthropo-obscene (critiquing the totalizing banner of Anthropocene that homogenizes an undifferentiated humanity that does not exist).
[...]
A performance of diversion, delay, co-optation, and performativity without substance is repeated almost annually. Nonetheless, these are also spaces of opportunities to challenge the system, to utter necessary words for more people to hear, collectivize among young and old activists, learn from different positionalities, create new openings and possibilities of alliances – in other words, a repoliticization of climate instead of the depoliticized techno-economist utopias that never deliver.
[...]
আমরা কোথায় যাব, আমাদের কি ভবিষ্যৎ? আমরাকি হত্তছারা, পরিত্যক্ত? (Where will my people go, what future do we have? Must we remain abandoned, forsaken?) The disproportionate burden of climate damage is falling on formerly colonized and brutalized racialized communities in the developing world. We are still colonized, but this time through climate change, the development industry, and globalization. I feel an immense responsibility to do something. But no one is going to listen to someone like me, and even more importantly, more marginalized peoples, women and children, farmers and fisherfolk, writers and scholars. But we are all expected to be resilient because we have no choice.
[...]
Climate coloniality is perpetuated through global land and water grabs, REDD+ programs, neoliberal conservations projects, rare earth mineral mining, deforestation for growth, fossil fuel warfare, and new green revolutions for agriculture – which benefit a few while dispossessing larger numbers of historically-impoverished, often elsewhere.
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I stop now, there is too much truth. You should read the article anyway :ecoanarchism_heart:
#ClimateChange #DeColonization #AntiColonization #ClimateJustice #ClimateColonialism #ClimateColoniality #EnvironmentalJustice #Capitalism #NeoColonialism #Racism #Cop26 #Cop27 #ScholarActivism #IndigenousScholars