Environmental Justice

The Puerto Rican Families Who’ve Gone Off the Grid

When Puerto Rico went dark a couple weeks ago, Mayra Nieves Rosa didn’t even notice. She was too wrapped up working from her home office in the San Juan metro area. It’s not like her lights went out. You see, the sun powers Rosa’s home—enough of it, at least. Any time the lights go out…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Beneath a Melting Glacier, a Peruvian Town Prepares For the Worst

Huaraz, Peru–From a stone hut perched on the edge of the glacial lake Palcacocha, 14,980 feet above sea level, Juan Victor Morales radios down to a dispatcher in the city of Huaraz below. He is all that stands between the city and disaster. Today, it’s just a routine call, one the wind-chapped lookout makes every…

Environmental Justice Daniel Setiawan

Please Don’t Do This

The world is full of resistance grifters preying on people’s fears about the death of democracy, equality, and a whole host of other things being chipped away at by President Donald Trump. Given the Trump administration’s climate denial, it’s shocking we haven’t had a scheme tied to climate change. But that niche is now filled,…

Environmental Justice Brian Kahn

The Hopi Tribe Takes Controversial Coal Battle to Court

The Hopi Tribe in northeastern Arizona is heading to the court to keep the largest coal plant in the West open. The tribe, along with the United Mine Workers of America and Peabody Energy, announced a lawsuit Tuesday against the Central Arizona Project (CAP), which powers 90 percent of its water pumping system through this…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Michelle Wolf Was Right About the Flint Water Crisis

Anyone paying attention knows that the drama around the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, is far from over. Comedian Michelle Wolf sure knows. While she took some heat during her White House Correspondents Dinner performance for some of her no-bullshit jokes, most people seemed to miss her call out to Flint at the end. “Flint…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

The Earth Sciences Are White AF

We already knew this, but let me repeat it for those in the back: The academic world of Earth science is white AF. A new commentary published in Nature Geoscience Monday reminded the world of this simple and disappointing truth. About 86 percent of geoscience Ph.D.s awarded in the U.S. from 1973 to 2015 went…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Scott Pruitt Was Never Going to Bring Back the EPA Climate Change Website

Tomorrow, it will have been one year since the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) climate change website was taken offline. And all signs are pointing toward it never coming back under the Trump administration. On April 28, 2017, visitors who arrived at the EPA’s climate website were redirected to a page with this: Thank you for…

Environmental Justice Brian Kahn

Atoll Islands Home to Thousands Could Be Uninhabitable by Mid-Century

In a matter of decades—not centuries—most atoll islands, low-lying islands that emerge around coral reefs, could become uninhabitable. These thousands of tiny islands scattered throughout the Pacific, which are home to more than 50,000 people, are at severe risk due to sea level rise and, as a new study details, wave-driven flooding. Published in the…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

‘Pollution Pods’ Show Londoners the Toxic Air They’re Helping Create

Pictures of the air pollution in developing countries have gone viral, and stories about toxic fog have proliferated for years. Yet they can feel unreal and divorced from the everyday experience in Western countries, where huge strides have been made to clean up the air (for wealthy people anyways). A new art exhibition in London transports…

Environmental Justice Brian Kahn

Hurricane Harvey Survivors Kicked Out of Hotels in Texas

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has officially let down Hurricane Harvey survivors. As of Tuesday, about 1,400 Texans had to check out of the hotel rooms where they were staying in the aftermath of the storm that has left them homeless since last year, reports The Houston Chronicle. Apparently, FEMA decided there’s enough housing…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Simmer Down About Lyft’s Carbon Neutrality Announcement

Earth Day is nearly upon us, which means it is time for brands to declare their love for Mother Earth in corporate reports and Medium posts. On Thursday, Lyft did the latter, announcing the company was buying carbon offsets for all rides. And thus, a thousand uncritical tech stories were launched. As with Apple’s 100…

Environmental Justice Brian Kahn

Colorado’s Climate Lawsuit Could Be a Template For Flyover Country

Climate lawsuits have been piling up on the coasts. But a pioneering duo of Colorado counties and the city of Boulder have filed the first landlocked lawsuit against big oil earlier this week, suing Exxon and tar sands producer Suncor Energy. It represents a new front in the legal war that’s pitting communities stuck paying…

Environmental Justice Brian Kahn

Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Is an ‘Attack on the Gwich’in People’

The Gwich’in people have called the northeastern lands of Alaska that spill into Canada home for more than 40,000 years. These lands are still theirs, except today they’re being threatened by oil and gas drilling. The Bureau of Land Management announced Thursday the first steps in its attempt to extract fossil fuels from the Arctic…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Hurricane Harvey and Maria Survivors Need More Housing Help From FEMA [Updated]

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is still dealing with last year’s hurricane season—and the 2018 season is less than two months away. The federal agency extended its shelter program another month for survivors of Hurricane Harvey Tuesday, while the Puerto Rican government requested that FEMA extend the Transitional Assistance Program for Hurricane Maria refugees…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

The Entire Island of Puerto Rico Just Lost Power [Update: Power’s Coming Back]

Darkness has fallen on the island of Puerto Rico. All 1.5 million customers of the Puerto Rican Electric Power Authority are currently without power. This is according to the authority itself, which informed the public via Twitter Wednesday. As far as we know, power isn’t expected to return for another 24 to 36 hours. The…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Colorado Is the Latest to Sue the Oil Industry

I dare say 2018 will be the year of climate litigation. In Colorado, the city of Boulder, as well as San Miguel and Boulder counties, filed a joint lawsuit Tuesday against ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy. It’s the first such litigation to come from a non-coastal state. Why? For the corporations’ alleged role in “causing, contributing…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Report: Basically No One Is Safe From Air Pollution

Just about every human on this planet is breathing unhealthy air, according to a new report from the Health Effects Institute, a nonprofit independent research organization. While the report’s central claim—that 95 percent of the world’s population is exposed to air that doesn’t meet the World Health Organization’s guidelines—sounds startling, in reality, this is a…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

As Landowners Sue the Keystone XL Developer, It Tries to Buy Off Others

The past six years have been intense for Art Tanderup. The 66-year-old farmer’s property in Neligh, Nebraska, sits directly in the path of the Keystone XL Pipeline. He’s opposed the 1,179-mile long proposed crude oil pipeline since 2012, when developer TransCanada first approached him and his wife, Helen, about purchasing an easement on their land.…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Kids Are Trying to Force Rick Scott to Face Climate Change in Court

Those meddling kids are at it again—this time, in Florida. A group of eight young people—ages 10 to 20—announced a lawsuit Monday against their sunshine state of Florida, so that Gov. Rick Scott takes action on climate change, according to The Miami Herald. Mind you, Scott is the same dude who pulled the “I’m not…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Embattled Telescope Delays Decision on Whether to Remain in Hawaii

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is deferring a decision on whether to stay in Hawaii or move to a back-up location in the Canary Islands while it waits to secure permits in either, the telescope’s board announced Friday. A year ago, Gizmodo reported that the board for the TMT—slated to become the world’s most powerful…

Environmental Justice Maddie Stone

The Puerto Rican Families Who’ve Gone Off the Grid

Beneath a Melting Glacier, a Peruvian Town Prepares For the Worst

Please Don’t Do This

The Hopi Tribe Takes Controversial Coal Battle to Court

Michelle Wolf Was Right About the Flint Water Crisis

The Earth Sciences Are White AF

Scott Pruitt Was Never Going to Bring Back the EPA Climate Change Website

Atoll Islands Home to Thousands Could Be Uninhabitable by Mid-Century

‘Pollution Pods’ Show Londoners the Toxic Air They’re Helping Create

Hurricane Harvey Survivors Kicked Out of Hotels in Texas

Simmer Down About Lyft’s Carbon Neutrality Announcement

Colorado’s Climate Lawsuit Could Be a Template For Flyover Country

Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Is an ‘Attack on the Gwich’in People’

Hurricane Harvey and Maria Survivors Need More Housing Help From FEMA [Updated]

The Entire Island of Puerto Rico Just Lost Power [Update: Power’s Coming Back]

Colorado Is the Latest to Sue the Oil Industry

Report: Basically No One Is Safe From Air Pollution

As Landowners Sue the Keystone XL Developer, It Tries to Buy Off Others

Kids Are Trying to Force Rick Scott to Face Climate Change in Court

Embattled Telescope Delays Decision on Whether to Remain in Hawaii

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