Articles by Rachel Ramirez
Rachel Ramirez is an environmental justice fellow at Grist
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2019: The deadliest year yet for environmental activists
A new report found that about 212 land and environmental defenders were killed in 2019 worldwide — a nearly 30 percent rise over 2018 data.
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What New Jersey’s new environmental justice law will and won’t achieve
New Jersey’s new law will shield poor communities from new sources of pollution. What about existing ones?
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One year later, what has New York’s landmark climate law accomplished?
"Goals are no good unless you meet them."
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![Resident Mirian Medina stands on her property about two weeks after Hurricane Maria swept through the island on October 5, 2017 in San Isidro, Puerto Rico]()
![Resident Mirian Medina stands on her property about two weeks after Hurricane Maria swept through the island on October 5, 2017 in San Isidro, Puerto Rico]()
Trump apparently proposed ‘selling’ Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria
Former Homeland Security Secretary Elaine C. Duke told the New York Times that Trump floated the possibility of "selling" and “divesting” the territory.
