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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

GreenBiz

What are the facts that document a systemic environmental justice problem in the United States? Analyses of environmental racism document a continuing pattern of powerlessness among lower-income minority citizens. Such a risk assessment should be available for public comment and independent scientific review.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

AGreenLiving

What are the facts that document a systemic environmental justice problem in the United States? Analyses of environmental racism document a continuing pattern of powerlessness among lower-income minority citizens. Such a risk assessment should be available for public comment and independent scientific review.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

AGreenLiving

What are the facts that document a systemic environmental justice problem in the United States? Analyses of environmental racism document a continuing pattern of powerlessness among lower-income minority citizens. Such a risk assessment should be available for public comment and independent scientific review.

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Ohio officials know how to stop Lake Erie from turning toxic, but no one will do it

Grist

After Toledo’s water crisis, Ohio went further, passing a law that prohibits farms in the western Lake Erie region from applying fertilizer on frozen or rain-saturated soil. But here, too, most fertilizer runoff efforts are voluntary — and exceptions undercut the state’s 2015 ban. It hasn’t done that, either.

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

After a dispiriting stint in corporate law, she turned to full-time environmentalism, joining Dogwood Alliance in 1997 and becoming its executive director at the age of 30. “I One of his projects in South Carolina has been the documentation of how logging of wetland forests has led to an increase in flooding.

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