Darryl Fears
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The TVA is dumping a mountain of coal ash in Black south Memphis
The Tennessee Valley Authority's move to dump coal ash in south Memphis shows how industries work to fight their way into communities of color already teeming with pollution. → Read More
As heat waves hit U.S. and Europe, leaders split on climate change
Leaders in Europe are calling for climate change action as heat waves break centuries-old records, while U.S. officials are loath to address climate policy amid extreme heat. → Read More
Block-by-block data show pollution’s stark toll on people of color
The data released Tuesday by Aclima — a California-based tech company that measured the region’s air quality block-by-block for the first time — found that communities of color and low-income communities are exposed to much more pollution than mostly White communities. → Read More
Biden’s new environmental justice chief faces a tough task
Jalonne L. White-Newsome, an academic who has worked in government and with grass-roots activists, was selected to be the Council on Environmental Quality’s new senior director for environmental justice. → Read More
Birth of six endangered red wolves has their advocates howling for joy
As recently as 2021, red wolves were “coding extinction … a ghost species,” one environmentalist said. Then the Biden administration took notice. → Read More
Black, Latino communities have a higher level of oil drilling and pollution
Thousands of drilling operations are within 100 meters of redlined communities, according to a new study. → Read More
Gordon Plaza was sold as a dream for Black home buyers. It was a toxic nightmare.
New Orleans city officials allowed developers to build homes on land contaminated with chemicals linked to cancer. They didn’t tell the people who moved in. → Read More
Climate warming has dealt yet another blow to the Great Barrier Reef
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has suffered its sixth massive bleaching event as climate change has warmed the ocean, reef managers confirmed Friday, raising concerns over whether the prized natural wonder is nearing a tipping point. → Read More
A disease more lethal than covid-19 has nearly wiped out northern long-eared bats
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says white-nose syndrome has driven 97 to 100 percent population decline. → Read More
Redlining means 45 million Americans are breathing dirtier air, 50 years after it ended
Decades of federal housing discrimination known as redlining accounts for the fact that 45 million Americans are breathing dirtier air today, according to a study released Wednesday. → Read More
With help from the Biden administration, activists defeat a potential pollution site in Chicago
A permit that would have allowed owners to move a troubled metal scrapyard from a wealthy area in the city to a working-class area was denied. → Read More
Biden officials launch ‘screening tool’ to help identify disadvantaged and polluted communities
The administration is calling on residents to use a “beta version” of its Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool over the next 60 days. → Read More
Biden’s focus on environmental justice led to a year of progress — and burnout
Biden’s top environmental justice official resigned two weeks before the White House marked the one-year anniversary of his ambitious climate agenda → Read More
EPA announces bold action to monitor pollution in ‘Cancer Alley’
The Biden administration says it will aggressively enforce air quality rules in Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and other problem areas in the South. → Read More
These whales are so decimated that a single birth was cheered by scientists
Slalom the North Atlantic right whale, survivor of multiple deadly fishing net entanglements, gave birth. But can mother and calf survive dangerous, human-infested waters? → Read More
‘Cancer has decimated our community.’ EPA’s Regan vows to help hard-hit areas, but residents have doubts.
Nearly a year after President Biden vowed to make environmental justice a centerpiece of his climate policy, EPA chief Michael Regan traveled to an area where African Americans experience some of the worst pollution in the nation to make the case that the administration is focused on disadvantaged communities. → Read More
Today’s COP26 theme is energy. Here’s what you need to know.
Negotiators in Glasgow, Scotland, must find a way to scale up the use of renewable energy in developing nations as they transition away from fossil fuels. → Read More
A D.C. area environmental group is dropping the name of John Audubon, naturalist who was an enslaver and Indian grave robber
The Audubon Naturalist Society is the first of the 11 original Audubon societies to rebuke its namesake and his racist past. “Once you know it, you can’t unknow it,” its director said. → Read More
Biden launches review that could ban copper mining near Minnesota wilderness area
The administration’s action restarts a study on Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, which Obama began and Trump then reversed. → Read More
Biden wants the sun to provide nearly half the nation’s electricity by 2050
The Biden administration announced a plan Wednesday to use solar energy to produce nearly half of the nation’s electricity by mid-century, part of its ambitious bid to address climate change. → Read More