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“President Joe Biden apologized to Native Americans on Friday for the U.S. government’s role in creating and operating Indian boarding schools that for 150 years aimed to assimilate Native children by taking them from their families and erasing their languages and culture.”
“Dubbed a “death star” bill by critics, the sweeping legislation would abolish local regulations on everything from workplace discrimination, minimum wage, heat-stress protections, and mandatory breaks to predatory payday and auto title lending, pest and disease control, children’s food programs, puppy mills, hazardous materials transport, and forest and wetlands management, to name just a few of the many protections it aims to undermine.”
“The bills are authored by state politicians with strong ties to industry groups, fossil fuels interests, and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the right-wing corporate bill mill that has long fought against “onerous” government regulations that it considers antithetical to free market capitalism.”
“Black mothers died at the nation’s highest rates, while the largest increases in deaths were found in American Indian and Native Alaskan mothers. And some states — and racial or ethnic groups within them – fared worse than others.”
“Within that 20-year period, the researchers documented stark disparities across five racial and ethnic groups. While all populations saw at least a two-fold rise in pregnancy-related deaths, maternal mortality tripled for Native American and Alaskan Native people. And Black Americans had the highest mortality rate of all groups in the study.”
“Nearly every state in the United States is neglecting access to maternal mental health care”
Congratulations to Yusef Miller, board member of CleanEarth4Kids.org, for receiving the NAACP California/Hawaii Gwen Moore Advocacy Award!
Clean air is a racial, social, climate and environmental justice issue.
Smoking ends lives. Click here for our Smoking and Vaping Harms Your Health page
Social Justice is Environmental Justice
Environmental Justice
All people and communities have the right to equal environmental protection under the law, and the right to live, work and play in communities that are safe, healthy and free of life-threatening conditions.
Environmental Racism
Any action or decision that results in the unequal exposure of people of color to environmental hazards and health effects.
Pollution Mapping Tools
Childhood Blood Lead Levels Map
EPA Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool
💚🎉California passed SB 1137 that gives us a new 3,200 foot buffer zone space away from dangerous toxic oil and gas operations at our schools, hospitals and homes. Link to info on SB 1137
But now,⛔️ the terrible fossil fuel industry has a fake petition trying to stop/overturn SB 1137 that saves children’s lives.
⛔️Do NOT sign a petition about SB 1137. We already passed it! We need it to save children’s lives!
⛔️At the grocery stores and other places, watch out for this fake petition. We have evidence of the fossil fuel industry lying to the young people collecting to signatures. They think they are signing to help.
Please ask your Congressmember to support HR5444: Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act
Link to find your Congressmember
Act would create a commission to investigate the impacts and ongoing effects of the Indian Boarding School Policies where American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children were forcibly removed from their family homes and placed in boarding schools
Link for more info
The California Environmental Justice Alliance looked at the voting record of all 120 California legislators to see who stood for environmental justice and significant environmental justice victories in 2021.
Dr. Robert Bullard, the father of Environmental Justice
Professor Bullard currently is a Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy and Director of the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice.. He is the former Dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University, founding Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University and co-founder of the HBCU Climate Change Consortium. He is an award-winning author on sustainable development, environmental racism, urban land use, industrial facility siting, community reinvestment, housing, transportation, climate justice, disasters, emergency response, and community resilience, smart growth, and regional equity.
Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali speaks to CleanEarth4Kids Youth about EPA Rollbacks/Cuts in Needed Enviromental Protections and Our Future. Please click here to watch our April 9 panel discussion
Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali worked at the EPA for 24-years. At the EPA, he served as the Assistant Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice and Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization. He has been a Guest Lecturer at Harvard University, Yale University, George Washington University, Georgetown University, Spelman College, Albany Law School and Howard University School of Law. He is also a former instructor at West Virginia University and Stanford University. Click for info.
Justice: Racial, Social, Climate & Environmental. Please click here to watch our June 11 panel discussion
Listen to CleanEarth4Kids.org on the Sustainable Urban Network. Click link below
“…living in a high-poverty neighborhood increases exposure to many different air toxics during infancy, that it reduces cognitive abilities measured later at age 4 by about one-tenth of a standard deviation, and that about one-third of this effect can be attributed to disparities in air quality.”
“…Black and Latino neighborhoods…targeted with nearly twice as many oil drilling wells as those in white neighborhoods.”
“Researchers found that ‘living near oil and gas wells is associated with higher risk of cardiovascular disease, impaired lung function, anxiety, depression, preterm birth, and impaired fetal growth,’ according to the study.”
“…structural racism in federal policy is associated with the disproportionate siting of oil and gas wells in marginalized neighborhoods.’
Redlining was made illegal by the Fair Housing Act in 1968….but it still goes on.
In the 1930s, the government put out maps of hundreds of cities for investment, grading them “best,” “still desirable,” “declining” or “hazardous.” Race was a big part of these maps with black and immigrant neighborhoods often rated “hazardous” and outlined in red.
For decades, people in these redlined areas were turned down for federally backed mortgages, business loans or insurance.
Past Racist “Redlining” Practices Increased Climate Burden on Minority Neighborhoods
How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering
Discriminatory Housing Practices Linked to Higher Pollution and Asthma Rates
Pollution and Prejudice: Redlining and Environmental Injustice in California by CalEPA
The Legacy of Redlining Lives on Today Through Exclusionary Zoning
Forgotten History Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America
“Instead of fast food and junk food, we’re providing people with greens and fresh vegetables, things they need”
H. Jack Geiger, Doctor Who Fought Social Ills, Dies at 95. He used medicine to take on poverty, racism and the threat of nuclear destruction. Two groups he helped start won Nobel Peace Prizes.
Landmark Environmental Justice Legislation Passed in New Jersey
Trump Administration Civil and Human Rights Rollbacks
Petition: Rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge after Rep John Lewis
Landmark Environmental Justice Legislation Passed in New Jersey
Native Land Digital: Mapping Indigenous Lands, Languages and Treaties. We are based in the traditional homelands of the Luiseño
Our volunteers are based in the lands of many other Native tribes.
Zitkala-Ša “Red Bird”
Zitkála-Šá was a pioneer Indian rights activist who graduated from mission and government schools where Indian children were forbidden from speaking their native languages. Working together, Indian activists from different tribes used their formal educations and flawless English to fight US federal Indian policy and demand social justice.
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Brookings Institute - Tracking Deregulation
Columbia Law - Climate Deregulation Tracker
The Guardian - Ways Trump Made America Dirtier and the Planet Warmer
Harvard Law - Regulatory Rollback Tracker
Harvard Law - Tracking the Trackers
Washington Post - Rollbacks of Environmental Safeguards
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Smoking is a Racial, Social, Climate & Environmental Justice Issue
Smoking ends lives.
Click here for our Smoking and Vaping Hurts Your Health page
Black Lives / Black Lungs is a short film investigating the tobacco industry’s infiltration into the black community.
