Impactscommons.wikimedia.org Justice Dept. tries to shift environmental justice efforts from symbolic to substantive The agency has announced a series of policies intended to elevate those efforts, including the creation of an office meant to address the “harm caused by environmental crime, pollution and climate change.”
Impactspl.m.wikipedia.org An Alabama town's sewage woes test Biden's infrastructure ambitions The new law allocates $11.7 billion for wastewater and stormwater projects. Will it get to the impoverished communities who need it most?
Impacts capitalandmain.com Hands across the water: Catherine Flowers' quest to drain the septic swamp A book written by the “Erin Brockovich of sewage” is a call to find common ground for clean water and other environmental justice causes.
Impacts e360.yale.edu Filthy water: A basic sanitation problem persists in rural America Residents of Alabama's Lowndes County lack adequate wastewater systems and must contend with sewage backing up into their yards and homes.
A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled
Young plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States lose Supreme Court bid but say they'll continue their pursuit of climate justice
