Mustafa Ali on Moving Forward on Environmental Justice Despite Trump
Mustafa Ali, a founder of EPA’s environmental justice office, discusses moving forward on environmental justice even without the support of President Trump.
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Indigenous Environmental Network’s Kandi Mossett on Fighting Pipelines, Warming
Kandi Mossett of the Indigenous Environmental Network talks about how and why native tribes are fighting the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipeline projects…
Will Standing Rock Sioux Victory Hold Up Under Trump?
Jan Hasselman of EarthJustice weighs in on whether the Standing Rock Sioux victory in stopping the DAPL pipeline from threatening their water supply will hold up once Trump takes the White House…
Standing with the Standing Rock: A Peak Inside Oceti Sakowin Camp
5,000 Native American activists have gathered at Oceti Sakowin camp in a peaceful protest near the proposed site of the DAPL pipeline project threatening the water of the Standing Rock Sioux of North Dakota.
Gathering of Tribes Mobilizes to Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline
Thousands of protestors at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota are trying to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline slated to cross land adjacent to sacred tribal territory.
Cultivating Disaster: A Tale in Song of the Dust Bowl
A scramble for land, money, and resources ends in ecological disaster and snatches away everything people have worked for. Does this sound like the situation threatening us today? It has happened before, in the Great Plains in the early twentieth century, when land ecologically unfit for farming was plowed under, culminating in the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
Oil & Water: Standing Rock Sioux Fight Oil Pipeline
North Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux, a tribe with a long history of displacement and persecution, is now fighting against the siting of an oil pipeline dangerously close to sacred tribal lands.
Interview: Vernice Miller-Travis
Environmental Justice Advocate and WE Act for Environmental Justice founder Vernice Miller-Travis weighs the pros & cons of Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
The Making of an Energy Ghetto
The clean-energy revolution is underway, and so is the war against it. As with every other major economic transition, this battle will have winners and losers. For low-income communities of color, the stakes are especially high: Will they reap the benefits of the emerging clean-energy economy or will they be locked into energy ghettos? Here’s […]