environmental justice

Ricky Johnson and Bridgette Murray, who work to raise awareness of issues caused by pollution, pose in front of a sign for the Pleasantville area of Houston on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024. Photo credit: Annie Mulligan, The Associated Press

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Biden promised to clean up heavily polluted communities. Here is how advocates say he did

August 26, 2024
By The Associated Press

A Chevron flag flies over the Chevron refinery in Richmond, California. Photo credit: Ben Margot, The Associated Press

Culture National

Richmond, predominantly non-white San Francisco suburb, agrees to $550M Chevron settlement, logs environmental justice win

August 15, 2024
By The San Francisco Chronicle

The Fifth Ward Elementary School and residential neighborhoods sit near the Denka Performance Elastomer Plant in Reserve, Louisiana, Sept. 23, 2022. More than 20 Republican attorneys general on April 16, 2024, asked the EPA to stop investigating environmental policies that disproportionately harm Black people but aren't intentionally discriminatory. The petition is unlikely to convince the Biden administration to back away from an issue EPA Administrator Michael Regan has taken pains to highlight, like visiting the industrial stretch of Louisiana typically called Cancer Alley. Photo credit: Gerald Herbert, The Associated Press

Politics

Republican AGs attack Biden’s EPA for pursuing environmental racism cases

April 24, 2024
By The Associated Press
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environmental justice

Biden promised to clean up heavily polluted communities. Here is how advocates say he did

Richmond, predominantly non-white San Francisco suburb, agrees to $550M Chevron settlement, logs environmental justice win

Republican AGs attack Biden’s EPA for pursuing environmental racism cases

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