"Redlined, Now Flooding" [1]
"Maps of historic housing discrimination show how neighborhoods that suffered redlining in the 1930s face a far higher risk of flooding today."
"Maps of historic housing discrimination show how neighborhoods that suffered redlining in the 1930s face a far higher risk of flooding today."
"President Joe Biden said on Monday he intends to nominate Todd Kim, former solicitor general for the District of Columbia, to lead the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division as its assistant attorney general."
"Deb Haaland was confirmed as the nation’s 54th Secretary of the Interior in a 51-40 vote Monday, making her the first Native American to lead a Cabinet agency."
This free, online program from Climate Matters in the Newsroom is designed to help journalists up their game in incorporating climate change into their reporting on every beat.
"President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid relief package includes a downpayment on his ambitious climate plan, including $100 million to address harmful air quality and environmental health risks in minority and low-income communities."
"The tale of Lee Johnson, a California groundskeeper who was diagnosed with terminal cancer he alleged was caused by his exposure to Monsanto's Roundup herbicides."
"Dozens of countries are backing an effort that would protect 30 percent of Earth’s land and water. Native people, often among the most effective stewards of nature, have been disregarded, or worse, in the past."
"Gov. Kevin Stitt’s commission to sort out Oklahoma’s future is stacked with oil and gas insiders — and has no Indigenous voices."
"The Senate confirmed Michael Regan to lead the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, putting the North Carolina regulator in charge of restoring the climate and water pollution regulations that the Trump administration had weakened."
"As the Biden administration begins the daunting job of rebuilding U.S. climate policy, it has gotten help from an unexpected, and perhaps unlikely, source—the federal courts." "Trump’s success in appointing conservative judges has so far been no match for his team's own ineptitude, the skill of the environmental bar and industry’s desire to work with the new administration."
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[4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-justice
[5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water
[6] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81
[7] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national
[8] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-flood-risk-redlining/?srnd=citylab
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/biden-name-former-dc-solicitor-lead-doj-environmental-division
[10] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics
[11] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/government
[12] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws
[13] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-justice-environment/biden-to-nominate-former-d-c-solicitor-general-to-lead-environmental-division-idUSKBN2B72O1
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/madam-secretary
[15] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/diversity
[16] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy
[17] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/land
[18] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/wildlife
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[24] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/business
[25] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health
[26] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14032021/environmental-justice-plays-a-key-role-in-bidens-covid-19-stimulus-package/
[27] https://www.sej.org/headlines/monsanto-papers-getting-dirty-part-1
[28] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/agriculture
[29] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics
[30] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution
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[32] https://www.sej.org/headlines/overlooked-indigenous-people-could-lead-global-plan-conserve-nature
[33] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/forests
[34] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/people-population
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[36] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/climate/nature-conservation-30-percent.html
[37] https://www.sej.org/headlines/oil-s-fight-roll-back-tribal-sovereignty-after-supreme-court-decision
[38] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/southwest
[39] https://theintercept.com/2021/03/10/oklahoma-mcgirt-oil-industry-kevin-stitt/
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[41] https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/10/michael-regan-epa-confirmed-475202
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[43] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09032021/federal-courts-biden-trump-environmental-climate-policy/
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