Today, the US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan announced a series of actions addressing issues faced by communities disproportionately affected by pollution. Driven by feedback received from activists he met with on the Journey to Justice tour, these actions include science-driven policy changes, increased enforcement, and efforts to improve air monitoring in pollution hotspots.
Today Representative Jamaal Bowman and Senator Ed Markey introduced the Heating and Cooling Relief Act of 2022, which would greatly expand a key utility bill assistance program and protect low-income households from losing access to electricity and other essential utilities.
Yesterday, Sierra Club, Texas Campaign for the Environment, CHISPA Texas, Healthy Gulf, Earthjustice, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid and Indigenous Peoples of the Coast Bend, and several hundred individuals submitted comments to the US Army Corps of Engineers urging them to reject Phillips 66 and Trafigura’s 404 permit application for their Bluewater Oil Export Terminal project proposed for construction in the Coastal Bend region of Texas’ Gulf Coast.
Los comentarios del domingo del Sen. Manchin parecen indicar que va a incumplir sus compromisos con el Presidente Biden y sus colegas en el Senado en una asombrosa falta de decoro.
Today, the Biden administration released the “Biden-Harris Lead Pipe and Paint Action Plan,” a comprehensive plan to invest in removing and replacing toxic lead pipes, strengthen enforcement of protections against lead hazards, close gaps in childhood lead testing data, and track investments in lead pipe cleanup in disadvantaged communities.
In a huge step towards environmental justice, President Joe Biden announced yesterday plans to appoint Dr. Earthea Nance as the new Region 6 Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency.
El Presidente Biden emitió hoy una orden ejecutiva para lograr una gran reducción de la contaminación climática del gobierno federal.
Ahora que el Senado ha vuelto a sesionar y que la necesidad de las comunidades de invertir aumenta diariamente, es hora de que los senadores aprueben la Ley Para Reconstruir Mejor (Build Back Better, BBB).
During yesterday’s White House Tribal Nations Summit, President Biden announced important steps the administration is taking to better recognize Tribal sovereignty and protect the rights of Indigenous communities.
This morning, Sierra Club released a report detailing how the two gas-fired power plants that Xcel Energy operates in Denver – Arapahoe and Cherokee – contribute to environmental injustice in the metro region. Both plants are located in low-income communities of color with higher-than-average health burdens, and they’re adding to the already disproportionately high amount of other industrial sources of pollution in those communities.
Today, EPA Administrator Michael Regan kicked off a week-long tour through Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas to meet with marginalized communities and discuss environmental justice issues facing the region. During the tour, Gulf communities threatened by oil and gas exports, joined by environmental advocates, are calling on the EPA to protect frontline communities by stepping in and doing everything in its power to stop the expansion of fossil fuel exports.
WASHINGTON, DC -- In the wake of President Biden’s announcement of a framework for the Build Back Better Act, the Sierra Club, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, and the Environmental Justice Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform are renewing the call for Congress to move the Build Back Better Act in tandem with the inadequate bipartisan deal. No climate, no deal.