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Before Manhattan Beach shut it down, Bruce's Beach was a famous Black-owned beach resort. Now, some want the city to atone for its actions. 
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Some say oil and gas exploration is essential as a source of jobs and revenue for Alaska Native communities, but activists argue it is simply exploitation.
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In the new book 'Living the California Dream,' historian Alison Rose Jefferson looks back at leisure's place in Black people's fight for civil rights
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Burnell Cotlon, on his beloved community and why he’s keeping a secret list.
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A week into her first term as mayor of Cudahy, Elizabeth Alcantar had to deal with a Delta jet dumping fuel on her working-class city. The 26-year-old represents hope for residents after years of corruption scandals.
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A controversial dam will swell the Tigris River until its waters submerge the ancient city of Hasankeyf, forcing longtime residents to flee and swallowing up cultural treasures.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
I spent my last sabbatical trying to stop a dam in Turkey. It worked (for now), but many other dams have gone forward. The rampant destruction of biodiversity and culture for the sake of geopolitical positioning is sick. This is what is wrought when science and democracy is removed from governance.
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If environmental organizations want to become racially diverse, says sociologist Dorceta Taylor, they need to change the way they perceive people of color. In an e360 interview, she talks about how the conservation movement must transform itself to become more inclusive and effective.
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Earth’s wild places cannot be saved by the hands of a few. Policy-makers must become evangelists for public lands
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In an ethnically diverse country, the extent that people live in affluent, white-only clusters goes far beyond what he ever imagined.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
ake a stroll around the Zona Sul — South Zone — of Rio de Janeiro and you’ll see some of Brazil’s finest beaches, its most iconic views and its fanciest real estate. You’ll also see a lot of white people. A heck of a lot, considering that less than half of all Brazilians identify as white. Yet white folks occupy 80 percent of Rio’s ritzy beachside, according to a striking new map created by a Brazilian geography student.
“80 percent!” exclaims Hugo Nicolau Barbosa de Gusmão, the twentysomething who mined national census data to map out Rio’s racial makeup. “I knew it would be high,” he tells GlobalPost, “but I didn’t think it would be that stark.”
Stark it is. His maps picture a city where whites dominate the most prestigious neighborhoods and members of other racial groups — the majority nationwide, but a minority here — cluster together in small spots. In a country where policymakers too often deny seeing color, here are the color lines, drawn.
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A walking tour of two south Oxnard sites during an unusual City Council meeting Friday afternoon highlighted projects — one futuristic, one obsolete — in search of funds.
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This low-level engineer is the first person found guilty of any crime following the massive spill.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
The crawl to justice seems often too slow and to often have a weakling's grip.
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Lee este artículo en español aquí. The Sierra Club is a 128-year-old organization with a complex history, some of which has caused significant and immeasurable harm. As defenders of Black life pull down Confederate monuments across the country, we must also take this moment to reexamine our past and our substantial role in perpetuating white supremacy. It’s time to take down some of our own monuments, starting with some truth-telling about the Sierra Club’s early history.
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"Behind the aloha vibe was the other vibe — a locals-only, whites-only vibe,” said Sharon Schaffer, the first African American female pro in the U.S.
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Coronavirus has people fighting over beach access. "Beyond Blue," a docu-game made with BBC Earth's "Blue Planet II" team, takes the science further.
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This is an increasingly common question: how much do we virtualize the nature-going experience? To be sure games wherein you engage with a model of the real world without cars or guns is helpful. But many of those who argue for strong environmental protection worry that as online nature experiences grow, there will be less vision and therefore reduced advocacy for real nature.
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"We call on governments to incorporate explicit safeguards for biodiversity."
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The judge excoriated the New York AG, but also said: 'nothing in this opinion is intended to absolve Exxon from responsibility for contributing to climate change.'
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WASHINGTON -- The latest episode of SARE’s Our Farms, Our Future podcast features Savi Horne, the executive director of the Land Loss Prevention Project in North Carolina i
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Three years after the closure of the Exide Technologies battery recycling plant in Vernon, only 270 lead-contaminated properties have been cleaned — most of them years ago in two small areas closest to the facility. And while residents wait, delays keep mounting.
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The city of Oxnard moves to deindustrialize its coastline, which has been blighted for years by power plants and a Superfund site.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Our friendly neighborhood superfund site/wetland restoration!
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You know, if I were to walk out of my office right now with a couple of cans of spray paint and a ball peen hammer, and set about vandalizing the local Citibank branch across the street, those actions would carry some natural consequences. Via pdeppisch
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19 Dec 2013 - United States - Environment - Key Deepwater Horizon Criminal Charges Dismissed Against Two BP Officials - Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP - Reining in one of the most aggressive environmental crimes prosecutions, a federal district judge...
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Apparently no one did anything wrong on that rig. Whst a relief! I guess it was just a string of unfortunate accidents. No harm done. Nothing to see here.
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The state Department of Toxic Substances Control has issued an emergency order directing a Vernon battery recycler to clean up lead and other metals that have been deposited near the Exide Technologies plant.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
As I have posted before, this particular situation in Boyle Heights (a traditionally poor, hispanic neighborhood in Los Angeles) appears to be a pretty clear example of environmental injustice.
Having worked on instances of materials/waste stored too close to a waterway/floodplain, I can say that the potential water contamination issue is a relatively simple one to remedy and should be something correctable over the course of a few days/weeks. The aerial emissions is a different story and is a case of needing to expend much money and enact various engineering/design modifications. That is likely to be a substantial cost to Exide and take on the order of many, many months (if not a year or more) to complete.
I am very sensitive to the regulatory burdens our heavy industries here in California are subjected to. They are often onerous and not necessarily the most efficient/effective wayd to achieve an environmental or public health benefit. And regulators not infrequently turn a deaf ear to the plight of heavy industries in a global marketplace. But having said that, this case does indeed appear to be an example where regultory enforcement should proceed forthwith. The apparent foot dragging here by the company is disappointing.
The classic proverbial environmental justice question here is; "Would Exide be allowed to be operating this way in L.S.'s tonier locales of Santa Monica, Malibu, or Pacific Palisades?"
It is also important to note that I like the Exides of the world operating here in the U.S. and California in particular. I believe it is the height of hypocracy to allow this work to happen in Inda, China, Nigeria, etc. when the users/consumers of these products are in the developed, affluent world. We should bear the burden of these industries and assure that they operate under our laws and pass on the cost to we the consumers, not our poorer friends around the world least able to manage such industrial activities. The goal here should be justice both for responsible industries and the airshed/people/ecosystems where they operate. Beware the siren song of the folks who would simply have us drive this producer permanental away, out of sight and out of mind.
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December 19, 2013 3:11 AM
As I have posted before, this particular situation in Boyle Heights (a traditionally poor, hispanic neighborhood in Los Angeles) appears to be a pretty clear example of environmental injustice.
Having worked on instances of materials/waste stored too close to a waterway/floodplain, I can say that the potential water contamination issue is a relatively simple one to remedy and should be something correctable over the course of a few days/weeks. The aerial emissions is a different story and is a case of needing to expend much money and enact various engineering/design modifications. That is likely to be a substantial cost to Exide and take on the order of many, many months (if not a year or more) to complete.
I am very sensitive to the regulatory burdens our heavy industries here in California are subjected to. They are often onerous and not necessarily the most efficient/effective wayd to achieve an environmental or public health benefit. And regulators not infrequently turn a deaf ear to the plight of heavy industries in a global marketplace. But having said that, this case does indeed appear to be an example where regultory enforcement should proceed forthwith. The apparent foot dragging here by the company is disappointing.
The classic proverbial environmental justice question here is; "Would Exide be allowed to be operating this way in L.S.'s tonier locales of Santa Monica, Malibu, or Pacific Palisades?"
It is also important to note that I like the Exides of the world operating here in the U.S. and California in particular. I believe it is the height of hypocracy to allow this work to happen in Inda, China, Nigeria, etc. when the users/consumers of these products are in the developed, affluent world. We should bear the burden of these industries and assure that they operate under our laws and pass on the cost to we the consumers, not our poorer friends around the world least able to manage such industrial activities. The goal here should be justice both for responsible industries and the airshed/people/ecosystems where they operate. Beware the siren song of the folks who would simply have us drive this producer permanental away, out of sight and out of mind. |
