Judge Says EPA Illegally Canceled a $2.8 Billion Environmental Justice Program – Mother Jones

As Jackson warned, it’s hard to view it as a coincidence that a Supreme Court majority built on fossil fuel money went out of its way to help the industry. Indeed, the case is emblematic of a broader distortion of American law. Billionaires and the industries they run have a well-monied thumb on the scales of justice, an oligarchic influence operation that, among other tactics, funds a flood of amici to push the justices toward a preferred outcome…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/judge-says-epa-illegally-cancelled-bidens-2-8-billion-environmental-justice-grants-program/

 

Justice Department scraps deal over Alabama county’s sewage woes - The Washington Post

Friday's decision comes nearly two years after the Biden administration finalized an agreement with local health officials and the Alabama Department of Public Health, based on findings that residents in rural Lowndes County had long suffered inadequate access to sanitation systems, faced burdensome fines and liens, and had serious health risks plaguing their community ignored...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/04/11/environmental-justice-lowndes-county-alabama-sewage/

 

Biden administration reverses Trump-era rule limiting scrutiny of environmental impacts - POLITICO

The rule will allow agencies to expand consideration of environmental justice factors in decision-making...

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/19/biden-reverses-trump-rule-limiting-scrutiny-environmental-impacts-00026207

EPA Administrator Michael Regan tours Cancer Alley and other pollution hotspots, vowing to promote environmental justice - The Washington Post

"Cancer has decimated our community," Taylor said. "For years we didn't know what it was. By then, the government and other people had labeled this place Cancer Alley, but we were unaware of it — the poor, uneducated, unknowing people."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/11/28/epa-regan-environmental-justice-tour/

'How can we let people live like this?' Rashida Tlaib on her fight for environmental justice

...Air pollution kills more people in Detroit than gun violence, and has probably contributed to the high Covid death toll...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/10/rashida-tlaib-interview-environmental-justice-water-crisis

Al Gore admits US poverty 'shocking' – but warns climate crisis will make things worse

Al Gore continued an environmental justice tour with a visit to poor areas of Alabama – and warned that already dire conditions are set to worsen because of climate change...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/22/al-gore-alabama-environmental-justice-climate-worse

A civil rights 'emergency': justice, clean air and water in the age of Trump | US news | The Guardian

The Trump administration is peeling away rules designed to protect clean air and water, fueling a growing urgency around the struggle for environmental justice, say political leaders, academics and activists....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/20/environmental-justice-in-the-age-of-trump

6 Ways President Trump Wants to Hamstring the EPA

The administration has big plans to slash environmental protections....
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/03/trump-epa-budget-cuts

Standing Rock: Dallas Goldtooth on Suspicious Fire Near Resistance Camp & Repression of Movement

http://democracynow.org - Overnight on Saturday in North Dakota, Native Americans resisting the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline reported a brush fire near their main resistance camp. They say they called 911, but no emergency teams responded. They also say the surveillance planes and helicopters, which have been flying almost constantly over the region in recent weeks, stopped flying about two hours before the fire began. Protectors believe the fire was intentionally lit by people working for Dakota Access. For more, we speak with Dallas Goldtooth, organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network.
Interview: https://youtu.be/xXz8pEknwp0

Real Time with Bill Maher: Interview with Bernie Sanders - July 29, 2016 (HBO)

Bill is joined by Senator Bernie Sanders for re-cap of the Democratic Convention, where Sanders encouraged his supporters to get behind Hillary Clinton.
Interview:
https://youtu.be/uHCe7Muy7MU

As Prominent Republicans Mock Environmental Justice, Cleveland Struggles With Pollution And Poison

On Monday, the first day of the Republican National Convention, the GOP platform committee chair was met with a chorus of laughter when he mocked the Democratic party for including climate justice — the part of environmental justice that deals with climate change and greenhouse gas emissions — in their party platform.

“There’s sections about that they call ‘climate justice’ — climate justice!” Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) said, drawing attention to the Democratic Party’s newly-published platform that considers environmental justice to be a key tenet of good environmental policy.

There is no small amount of irony in the fact that Republicans are mocking the concept of environmental justice during a convention that takes place in Cleveland. For years, Cleveland has been at the center of the United States’ domestic environmental policy — and while Republican delegates and politicians joke about climate justice and abolishing the EPA, the city of Cleveland is dealing with environmental problems that pollute its air and poison its residents....
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/07/20/3799311/cleveland-environmental-problems-rnc/