Federal judge rolls back key civil rights protections in Louisiana’s ‘sacrifice zones’

#louisiana #epa #environmentaljustice #environmentalequity

https://grist.org/equity/title-vi-epa-james-cain-louisiana/

Federal judge rolls back key civil rights protections in Louisiana’s ‘sacrifice zones’

The decision could open the door for other industry-friendly states to follow suit.

Grist
'License to hide': Western plastic waste dumped in Myanmar

In a working-class neighborhood of Myanmar's Yangon, plastic waste is piled a meter high, the toxic product of what a recent investigation said is rampant dumping of Western trash.

Phys.org
How Massive Amazon Warehouses Are Straining a Vulnerable Brooklyn Neighborhood

Residents of Red Hook, New York, are monitoring traffic, sound, and pollution near Amazon warehouses in the hopes of reining in the spread of e-commerce facilities.

Consumer Reports

The move to phase out #oil drilling in Los Angeles will have a particular impact on Black neighborhoods, where some residents have lived next to oil wells for decades.

Great story by Adam Mahoney for Capital B News: https://capitalbnews.org/oil-drilling-ban-la/

Adam's latest builds on reporting that he did earlier this year for #HighCountryNews in partnership w/ @grist: https://www.hcn.org/issues/54.8/south-pollution-a-community-poisoned-by-oil

I'm incredibly proud of this project and glad to see LA taking this step toward more #EnvironmentalEquity + #justice

The Quiet Toll of Oil Drilling on Black Los Angeles

The move to phase out oil drilling in Los Angeles will have a particular impact on Black neighborhoods, where some residents have lived next door to oil wells for decades.

Capital B

Hi! I’m still new here, figuring it out. #introduction

Hoping this instance is diverse and welcoming to all (except nazis/fascists/racists)

I’m going to share a big hashtag mess; I like to learn things and meet people.

I enjoy #queer topics, and #antiracism
#Neurodiversity
#journalists #authors #writers
#scientists #EnvironmentalEquity #nature #rocks
#photography
#weather especially #cowx and #wildfires
#colorado and #denver and #california
#politicsoftheunitedstates and #StopGopHate

Hi! I’m relatively new here, figuring it out. #introduction #introductions

Created this second profile in case the CW thing becomes an issue elsewhere.

I’m going to share a big hashtag mess of my interests; I like to learn things and meet people.

I enjoy #queer topics, and #anti-racism #Neurodiversity #journalists #authors
#scientists #EnvironmentalEquity #nature #photography
#weather especially #cowx
#colorado and #denver and #california
#politicsoftheunitedstates and #StopGopHate

#introduction (toot!)

I'm a computational biologist at #UHManoa studying microbial ecosystems in the pacific ocean

...currently obsessing over marine phage and phage satellites: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2212722119

In addition to #bioinformatics, #metagenomics, and #environmentalmicrobiology, I'm here to follow #sciart, #environmentalequity, #ultimate (the sport), and anything else interesting and beautiful.

reposting my #introduction+hashtags for the new instance (is that how this works? idk, it feels right)

I'm Sara, and I lead a #DeveloperExperience (#devrel) team at a company that uses tiny satellites to do #EarthObservation

Things I care/talk about:

#accessibility in #tech & #DataScience
#EnvironmentalEquity, #ClimateJustice & #sustainability
#OpenSource #software & #OpenData
#gis & #geospatial #science

Oh and I also continue to remind folks that #CovidIsNotOver because #CovidIsAirborne. ✨

Hi! I’m new here, figuring it out. #introduction #introductions

Looks like I should try to find another server, so if anyone has suggestions let me know.

I’m going to share a big hashtag mess of my interests; I like to learn things and meet people.

I enjoy #queer topics, and #anti-racism #Neurodiversity #journalists #authors
#scientists #EnvironmentalEquity #nature #photography
#weather especially #cowx
#colorado and #denver and #california
#politicsoftheunitedstates and #StopGopHate