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![Rose Auger, a Cree spiritual elder, opened the summit asking for spiritual union to all participants. With her, left to right: Benjamin Chavis, Jr., Gail Small, Toney Anaya, Syngman Rhee.]()
![Rose Auger, a Cree spiritual elder, opened the summit asking for spiritual union to all participants. With her, left to right: Benjamin Chavis, Jr., Gail Small, Toney Anaya, Syngman Rhee.]()
The event that changed the environmental justice movement forever
Thirty years later, organizers reflect on the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit.
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Study: Indigenous tribes lost 99% of land to colonization
Settlers pushed tribes into land more at risk from climate change
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EPA finally has an action plan to improve water infrastructure and sanitation for US tribes
Indigenous leaders push for increased tribal consultation and funding
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North Carolina tribes fear pipeline will damage waterways, burial grounds
A fracking company wants to extend the Mountain Valley Pipeline into the lands of Indigenous people and predominantly Black communities.
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![A street in New York looks wet, garbage and debris acoomultes in the sidewalk. A man wearing a white tank top and jeans walks through it.]()
![A street in New York looks wet, garbage and debris acoomultes in the sidewalk. A man wearing a white tank top and jeans walks through it.]()
Facing floods and fires, undocumented immigrants have nowhere to turn for help
Most emergency funds after climate-related disasters still exclude undocumented immigrants. Can we change that?
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![Collage: rusted water pipes and volunteers unloading packs of bottled water]()
![Collage: rusted water pipes and volunteers unloading packs of bottled water]()
How are Michigan residents still drinking water with toxic levels of lead years after Flint?
Environmental racism, corroded old pipes, and flawed regulation are at play.
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![Split view of a schoolyard with a no trespassing sign and a parklike schoolyard]()
![Split view of a schoolyard with a no trespassing sign and a parklike schoolyard]()
Report: To close the park access gap, open up schoolyards
Opening up schoolyards to the public would give 20 million more Americans access to a park.
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![An oil refinery billows smoke.]()
![An oil refinery billows smoke.]()
A new scorecard ranked companies on environmental racism. Guess who came in last?
ExxonMobil and other oil companies got negative scores for polluting nonwhite communities.
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![Collage: a ranch style house sitting on top of a leaking brown puddle]()
![Collage: a ranch style house sitting on top of a leaking brown puddle]()
The EPA just ordered this Illinois city to fix its sewage problem — again
Cahokia Heights has been ordered to control its sewage overflows, but finding the money to do so will be a challenge.
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![Illustration: A cracked Venetian mask with the Chamber of Commerce design on it]()
![Illustration: A cracked Venetian mask with the Chamber of Commerce design on it]()
The Chamber of Commerce says it cares about people of color. The receipts say otherwise.
While protecting its donors from climate risk disclosures, the business lobby continues to imperil Black and brown communities it claims to care about.
