Sentences with phrase «environmental justice advocates»

Scientists and environmental justice advocates alike argue that better policies are needed to address double jeopardy.

Many people in the area's low - income and minority neighborhoods don't have air conditioners, said environmental justice advocate Jocelyn Travis of the Sierra Club's Ohio chapter.

Meanwhile, the community and environmental justice advocates point to studies showing that people living near mountaintop removal sites are at increased risk of developing physical and mental health problems and of dying from cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Also at 11 a.m., NYC Council members and environmental justice advocates call on de Blasio to «implement a stronger energy efficiency policy that will require building owners to reduce all types of energy usage, including electricity, not just fossil fuels, while protecting affordable housing and protecting good union jobs,» City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. and Council member Annabel Palma, the head of the Bronx Council delegation, joined up with other Council members and environmental justice advocates at City Hall today to rail against Mayor Bloomberg's plan to shelve the building of four new waste transfer stations — three Manhattan and one Brooklyn.

ALA also found, by overlaying census data with pollution maps, that Americans with the lowest incomes face higher risks of harm from air pollution, underscoring what environmental justice advocates have been saying for years.

Probably the biggest grievance environmental justice advocates had with AB 398, according to Bill Magavern, policy director of the Coalition for Clean Air, is a specific provision that prohibits California's Air Resources Board and local air districts from directly regulating carbon emissions by sources that are also subject to the state's cap - and - trade program.

While environmental justice advocates still oppose the cap - and - trade program, they fiercely defend the law itself.

According to Angela Johnson Meszaros, a lawyer and veteran environmental justice advocate, «There were lots of things that got incorporated into the language in the service of building a coalition, so they could have environmental justice communities pushing for adoption of AB 32.»

Previously, the national NAACP and other environmental justice advocates gave FirstEnergy and other companies an «F» for pollution from coal plants having disproportionate impacts on low - income communities where many people of color live.

To environmental justice advocates in Wilmington and elsewhere in the state, cap and trade sounds like cheating — as if California has given industries leeway to buy their way out of greening their operations.

Environmental justice advocates also pointed out that communities living next to dirty energy factories, like the Richmond Chevron oil refinery, hope that AB 32 will reduce pollution in their neighborhoods.

Wednesday, October 11, 2017 - Today environmental justice advocates launched a new translocal campaign to push for a resilient recovery for Puerto Rico.

At 2 p.m., environmental justice advocates, community groups, and city officials will meet to stage an emergency drill to test and evaluate community preparedness for future hurricanes and other major climate disasters, THE POINT Community Development Corp., 940 Garrison Ave., the Bronx.

However, several politicians and an environmental justice advocate came out in support of Quinn, including Councilwoman Maria del Carmen Arroyo, who represents the South Bronx; City Councilwoman Inez E. Dickens, who represents Harlem; and State Sen. Gustavo Rivera, who represents The Bronx.

Environmental justice advocates, who have long criticized cap and trade for its propensity to allow businesses to avoid reducing emissions at the source, praised the lack of an immediate link to international deforestation programs.

As industrializing countries strive to avoid the mistakes of others, ToxicDocs will remain a resource free and open to all, anywhere in the world: investigative journalists, toxicologists, policy - makers, historians of public health, environmental justice advocates, and the general public.

Ken Wiwa, 47, a journalist and environmental justice advocate, has died.

Vulnerable populations are likely to suffer the worst impacts of climate change, according to environmental justice advocates.

But environmental justice advocates aren't ready to give up their fight.

Jan. 2018: Halting the proposed increase of oil tanker deliveries to the Phillips 66 Rodeo refinery in SF Bay is identified as a 2018 priority for California and SF Bay Area climate and environmental justice advocates.

Environmental justice advocates say that the attacks on science represent irresponsible political malpractice against the people of the U.S. by officials who are sworn to uphold the public interest.