The oil and natural gas industry is responsible for 138,000 asthma attacks leading to over 100,000 missed school days each year for African American children nationwide. This was concluded in a groundbreaking new study by the Clean Air Task Force (CATF) and the National Advancement for Colored People (NAACP). These new findings help illustrate the […]
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Baltimore’s Children Struggle in Toxic Environment
“Our society has treated the abuse, maltreatment, violence, and chaotic experiences of our children as an oddity that is adequately dealt with by emergency response systems… These services are needed and are worthy of support—but they are a dressing on a greater wound… Later, in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood behavioral, learning, social, criminal, and chronic health problems.” […]
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Reaping the Bitter Fruit Sown in Baltimore
Is it justified to simply scorn the behavior of bad actors who wreak havoc upon neighborhoods in Baltimore without accounting for the unabated decades-long systemic isolation and degradation of communities of color by the larger society that has caused wide swaths of the urban landscape to become desolate wastelands where the more fortunate inhabitants subsist? […]
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How the Energy Sector Can Benefit African Americans
America’s energy sector is transforming as a result of investments in smart energy grids, increased use of renewables and rising oil and gas generation. The changes taking place within this area of the economy are important to all Americans, both as consumers and as part of the workforce. After all, all of us use energy. […]
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Black America on Target to Save the Environment
Black folks and people of color make up 38 percent of our nation’s population but with only 12 percent are in leadership positions in environmental organizations. Now, if you think that’s just a Black problem, think again. It’s now become one of our nation’s biggest dilemma, under our current administration. Black inner-city communities have historically […]
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A Missing Black Political Conversation on Climate Change
Lead-tainted public water in Flint, Mich., may have become a bottle water-grabbing cause celebre in 2016 as Black social movements protested the scandalous manmade disaster that poisoned the entire working class, majority-Black city. Black elected officials, from newly elected Mayor Karen Weaver to Michigan state legislators on up to the Congressional Black Caucus, were all […]
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How to Stump Trump and Save the Environment
As an environmentalist, I am bracing myself for the worst case scenarios our current elected president and his administration could implement. In recent years, the world has slowed its impact on the environment by making strides in sustainable and renewable energy sources and, finally, recognizing that climate change is real. The world is looking at […]
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Trump Stance on the Environment is a Disgrace
For years now I have been spreading the message to protect, preserve, and to give honor to the very being that all life resides upon, EARTH. Our newly-elected president, Donald Trump has a very different message. His stance is to protect, preserve and to give honor to businesses only. Forgetting and dismissing the environment issues […]
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Energy Industry Could Be Beneficial for African Americans
David K. Owens, executive vice president of Business Operations, Group and Regulatory Affairs at the Edison Electric Institute. It is expected over the several few years that utility companies across the United States will spend between $1.5 trillion and $2 trillion on infrastructure investments. Those investments and the projected growth of the energy industry could […]