The EPA is facing legal challenges over its plans to cancel nearly 800 grants, including those focused on environmental justice, which could potentially be reversed if the court case progresses.
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Grok, What Happens in Memphis When You’re Asked a Question?
Elon Musk’s X platform uses a massive supercomputer in South Memphis, which is powered by 35 gas-powered turbine generators and emits significant amounts of nitrogen oxides and other toxic chemicals, causing environmental concerns and health risks for the local community.
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DOJ Reneges on Sewage Deal Biden Reached With a Black AL County
The Trump administration has backed out of a 2023 settlement with the Alabama Department of Public Health that would have helped find a solution to straight piping in Lowndes County, which has been a source of disease-bearing mosquitoes and parasites for decades.
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Climate Justice Isn’t Dead
Environmental justice programs are being dismantled by the Trump Administration, but Ryan Hathaway believes the backlash will fail and is working to preserve environmental justice efforts.
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Why 90°F With Humidity Could Soon Be a Death Sentence
Scientists have discovered that Black Americans are more vulnerable to extreme heat and humidity, with wet-bulb temperatures of 31 degrees Celsius or higher posing a significant threat to public health, particularly in major American cities with large Black populations.
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In EPA’s War on Environmental Justice, the Dems Go on Offense
Senate Democrats are accusing Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin of breaking the law by canceling billions of dollars in federal grants intended to address environmental justice issues in minority communities.
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EPA Administrator Zeldin Dismantles Environmental Justice Offices and Programs
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has issued a memo ending all “diversity, equity and inclusion and environmental justice offices and positions,” and the agency will close 10 of its Environmental Justice Divisions in regions around the country, which has critics arguing that this undermines the agency’s statutory responsibility to help communities of color who have suffered disproportionate harm.
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Trump’s EPA Just Declared War on Environmental Justice
The White House is trying to claw back $20 billion in federal funds meant to help underserved communities with the effects of global warming, while the nonprofits that received the funds are fighting back in court.
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Apparently, Planting Trees Is a DEI Plot
Support Our Urban Landscape, a Black-run nonprofit in New Orleans, has lost funding from the Trump Administration’s war on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, which would have allowed them to plant 5,000 trees across the city to combat the urban heat-island effect.
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EPA Killed a $50M Climate Justice Grant Biden Already Shelved
The Biden Administration canceled a $50 million grant to the Climate Justice Alliance because it supports Palestine, leaving Black and brown communities that suffer from climate change without relief.