Articles by Rachel Ramirez
Rachel Ramirez is an environmental justice fellow at Grist
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![Smoke billows from one of many chemical plants in the area of Cancer Alley in Baton Rouge, Louisiana]()
![Smoke billows from one of many chemical plants in the area of Cancer Alley in Baton Rouge, Louisiana]()
These Louisiana activists are facing ‘terrorizing’ charges for a stunt they pulled 6 months ago
The arrests come just a week after activists won a court battle against the plastics manufacturer targeted by those now facing charges.
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![Activist group Earth Strike NYC announced a radical frontline coalition gathering in Sunset Park to support UPROSE in its campaign for local community-led climate justice]()
![Activist group Earth Strike NYC announced a radical frontline coalition gathering in Sunset Park to support UPROSE in its campaign for local community-led climate justice]()
‘Put up or shut up’: New York forges ahead with statewide environmental justice measures
The Empire State announced a slate of grants totaling more than $10.6 million to help underserved residents access affordable solar energy.
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![Formosa Plastics Slave Cemeteries]()
![Formosa Plastics Slave Cemeteries]()
This plastics company is trying to stop Black residents from visiting a slave burial site on Juneteenth
A group of Black residents from St. James Parish, Louisiana, got the green light to hold an hour-long Juneteenth prayer on a burial plot, owned by plastics company Formosa.
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![photo of protester in mask that reads I cant breathe]()
![photo of protester in mask that reads I cant breathe]()
Black environmentalists are organizing to save the planet from injustice
The words ‘I can’t breathe’ have added meaning for polluted black communities.
