Environmental Justice

What Happened to the $8 Million People Raised For Standing Rock?

The uprising seen at Standing Rock in 2016 was historic. But the moment when a Native American tribe tried to stop a crude oil pipeline in the name of water and sovereignty has largely slipped out of the public consciousness. So, apparently, have the millions of dollars in GoFundMe donations people poured into it—nearly $8…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

A Texas River Is Now Endangered Because of Trump’s Stupid Wall

I’ve heard rivers called polluted. I’ve even written about them becoming legal persons. But the idea of a river that’s endangered is new to me. Advocacy group American Rivers has been putting out a list of the most endangered rivers in the U.S. for 33 years now. This year, the list of 10 includes the…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Navajo and Hopi Leaders Call on Congress to Help Them Survive the End of Coal

The Navajo Generating Station (NGS) was originally slated to run until 2044. That didn’t quite work out. The largest coal power plant in the West will now shutter next year—25 years ahead of schedule. That closure could prove devastating to the Navajo and Hopi, two sovereign tribal nations whose economies depend on it. Leaders and…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Hurricane Maria Caused the Second-Longest Blackout Ever

As the sun came up on Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands after Hurricane Maria, it was clear life would be forever different. Weak, old electric grids reliant on outdated infrastructure were basically wiped out by Category 4 winds, and the replacement process dragged on to the point that it became the worst blackout…

Environmental Justice Brian Kahn

Here Are Some Ideas For Scott Pruitt’s Challenge Coin

Noted scandal magnet and fearful Environmental Protection Agency leader Scott Pruitt reportedly wants to change his agency’s challenge coin—a souvenir that cabinet members and other high-ranking officials make to give out for special occasions and to guests. Pruitt would like the new EPA challenge coin to be bigger and be, in the words of the…

Environmental Justice Earther Staff

The EPA Is Finally Cleaning Up a Superfund Site Damaged by Hurricane Harvey

When Hurricane Harvey hit Houston last August, the area’s most polluted sites immediately became vulnerable. Now, the Environmental Protection Agency is finally starting to clean up the first of 13 Superfund sites damaged and flooded by the storm. The EPA announced Tuesday it’s reached an agreement with the San Jacinto River Waste Pits Superfund’s former…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Even the EPA Can’t Defend Scott Pruitt’s Expensive Travel and Security

Turns out Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt may not have needed to travel in luxury to escape threats, according to, uh, the EPA. This is awkward! Two Senate Democrats released a letter on Tuesday contradicting the EPA administrator’s claim that he needed round-the-clock security and first class seats because he had received death threats,…

Environmental Justice Brian Kahn

This ‘Spiritual, Mythical, Fictional’ Art Exhibit Explores Our Connection to the Earth

Sometimes, the silence of a piece of art can leave your mind running—in a good way. Other times, you need some music, some prose, or some sound. Art lovers can meet all these needs at the Whitney Museum’s new “Between the Waters” exhibit, which explores the (often fraught) relationship between land and people. The best…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Whoops, That Keystone Pipeline Spill Was Twice as Big as Everyone Thought

Remember that huge Keystone pipeline spill in South Dakota last year? Well, it turns out it was about twice as big as folks originally thought. Here’s a quick video we made about the incident involving Keystone (not to be confused with Keystone XL, which still isn’t constructed) back in November: That video is now outdated…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

No More Free Water Bottles For Flint Residents

If residents in Flint, Michigan, need some bottled water, they can’t rely on the state anymore. The city of nearly 100,000 is still reeling—nearly four years later—from a crisis that left residents (and their children) exposed to dangerous levels of lead in their water supply. However, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality announced Friday everything…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Activists Score a Victory as Canada’s Biggest Pipeline Project Goes on Hold

After weeks of intense opposition, Kinder Morgan announced it was halting all non-essential work on its Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion on Sunday. The move throws one of Canada’s biggest fossil fuel infrastructure projects into doubt, with the company setting May 31 as a deadline to resolve issues around the project. If that deadline isn’t met,…

Environmental Justice Brian Kahn

The Colombian Amazon Is Now a ‘Person’, and You Can Thank Actual People

The Colombian Amazon is now legally a person, and a group of Colombian youth—ages 6 to 26—made it happen. Camila Bustos is one of them. She was in high school when she realized the severity of climate change. Now, Bustos is 25 and doing legal research for Dejusticia, an international human rights organization that’s made…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Fed Up States Sue EPA For Failing to Regulate Methane

If President Donald Trump and his goonies want to go ahead and let methane run wild, they can try. They’ll just have to deal with all the many groups and states across the U.S. that’ll fight back. Fifteen attorney generals from California to Vermont—with New York leading the charge, of course—filed a lawsuit Thursday against…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

These Water Protectors Won’t Let Arrests Stop Them From Fighting the Bayou Bridge Pipeline

On Thursday, officers arrested several Bayou Bridge Pipeline protestors who stood in the path of construction trucks in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, attempting to stop the construction of the 163-mile crude oil pipeline. Among the arrested was Cherri Foytlin, indigenous environmental activist and co-founder of the L’eau Est La Vie (Water Is Life) Camp which has…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Nestle Free to Pump Even More Water Near Flint While Residents Face Shutoffs

Residents in Flint, Michigan, are still relying on bottled water for their everyday needs. Don’t count on finding Nestlé water in many homes, though. You can, however, find Nestlé about 100 miles away drawing huge amounts of water from the White Pine Springs—for just $200 a year. That’s got many Michigan residents pissed. So pissed,…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

The Puerto Rican Town Left to Stew in Toxic Waste

ARECIBO, PUERTO RICO—In the six months since Hurricane Maria, 67-year-old Aileen Román Rodríguez has struggled to rebuild, to re-establish her routine, and to regain a sense of security. Her one-story, concrete-walled home in the seaside town of Arecibo remains largely uninhabitable. Up and down Rodríguez’s street, other residences appear abandoned and rundown. But Rodríguez’s community…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

A Running List of Wild Shit Scott Pruitt Hasn’t Been Fired For (Yet) [Update: He’s Finished]

We will update this post as more scandals surface. Update 7/5/18: Straight from the horse’s mouth, scandal magnet and oil shill Scott Pruitt is resigning. President Trump tweeted today that he has accepted Pruitt’s resignation and that Deputy Administration Andrew Wheeler will be stepping up to fill Pruitt’s shoes, which were presumably purchased by an…

Environmental Justice Brian Kahn

How First Nations Are Keeping Watch Over an Embattled Canadian Pipeline

BURNABY, BRITISH COLUMBIA—At 6:30 a.m., workers started hacking away at blackberry bushes in a small clearing, wading through ankle-deep mud from the rains the day before. Just steps away, bright yellow signs staked into a berm warned of a high pressure pipeline buried beneath. Amid the whir of saws and clack of hammers, Will George…

Environmental Justice Brian Kahn

The EPA’s Obsession With ‘Transparency’ Threatens Communities of Color

Every policy the Environmental Protection Agency implements is backed up by science. Datasets and research conclusions lie behind every proposal. And at the heart of this research are actual people, whose data is often hidden in order to protect their privacy. Now, the agency wants to end the use of such “secret science,” as EPA…

Environmental Justice Yessenia Funes

Any Plan to Geoengineer the Planet Must Include the Global South

Geoengineering is a radical climate change response that could backfire catastrophically. If it did, developing countries would bear the brunt of the burden, both in terms of any negative consequences of planet-hacking, as well as if we suddenly stopped. So it stands to reason that just maybe, those countries should have a little bit of…

Environmental Justice Maddie Stone

What Happened to the $8 Million People Raised For Standing Rock?

A Texas River Is Now Endangered Because of Trump’s Stupid Wall

Navajo and Hopi Leaders Call on Congress to Help Them Survive the End of Coal

Hurricane Maria Caused the Second-Longest Blackout Ever

Here Are Some Ideas For Scott Pruitt’s Challenge Coin

The EPA Is Finally Cleaning Up a Superfund Site Damaged by Hurricane Harvey

Even the EPA Can’t Defend Scott Pruitt’s Expensive Travel and Security

This ‘Spiritual, Mythical, Fictional’ Art Exhibit Explores Our Connection to the Earth

Whoops, That Keystone Pipeline Spill Was Twice as Big as Everyone Thought

No More Free Water Bottles For Flint Residents

Activists Score a Victory as Canada’s Biggest Pipeline Project Goes on Hold

The Colombian Amazon Is Now a ‘Person’, and You Can Thank Actual People

Fed Up States Sue EPA For Failing to Regulate Methane

These Water Protectors Won’t Let Arrests Stop Them From Fighting the Bayou Bridge Pipeline

Nestle Free to Pump Even More Water Near Flint While Residents Face Shutoffs

The Puerto Rican Town Left to Stew in Toxic Waste

A Running List of Wild Shit Scott Pruitt Hasn’t Been Fired For (Yet) [Update: He’s Finished]

How First Nations Are Keeping Watch Over an Embattled Canadian Pipeline

The EPA’s Obsession With ‘Transparency’ Threatens Communities of Color

Any Plan to Geoengineer the Planet Must Include the Global South

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