climate change
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Fighting for Environmental Justice Is Fighting for Racial Justice
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Governmental neglect left majority-black wards destitute. Seventy-three percent of those displaced by Katrina were black, and more than one-third of them were estimated to have been poor. Although the hardest-hit areas in New Orleans were low-income communities and communities of color, white residents were favored over black residents…
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Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Message to Politicians: ‘You Don’t Get to Deny Science’
Neil deGrasse Tyson has a few words for those politicians out there denying science. In a four-minute video, which he says contains “what may be the most important words I have ever spoken,” the astrophysicist calls out politicians for denying science. Tyson partnered with Redglass Pictures to make Science in America and asks people to…
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Rex Tillerson or Is It Wayne Tracker? Secretary of State Used Fake Name to Send Emails When He Was Exxon Mobil CEO: Report
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says that while U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was the CEO of Exxon Mobile Corp., he used an email alias to discuss the risks that climate change posed. Tillerson, whose middle name is Wayne, used the email alias and unimaginative faux porn name “Wayne Tracker” from 2008 to…
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Scott Pruitt: We Need More Proof Global Warming Exists; That Earth’s Basically Melting Is Not Enough
Scott Pruitt, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency, showed that he is everything we feared he would be Thursday when he got on television and basically denied that climate change exists. The Washington Post reports that Pruitt’s comments on the CNBC program Squawk Box “outraged scientists, environmentalists, and even his immediate predecessor” at…
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Canaries in a Coal Mine: Black Communities Could Suffer Under Trump’s Energy and Climate Policies
President-elect Donald Trump dropped a lump of coal into the stockings of environmentalists with his nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency. The selection of Pruitt, who joined a coalition of state attorneys general in suing the agency he’s been nominated to lead over its Clean Power Plan, and…
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CBC Week: Black People Are Hurt by Climate Change, but It’s Not on the Agenda
It’s no secret: The climate is changing, and black communities are on the front lines. From the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans to the Rockaways in New York City and westward to San Francisco’s East Bay, African Americans are bearing the brunt of climate impacts. Black people contribute much less to the problem (pdf)…