Derrick Z. Jackson
Derrick Z. Jackson is a 2018 winner from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, a 10-time winner from the National Association of Black Journalists and a Pulitzer Prize finalist and co-author of Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock (2015). He can be reached at dzjphoto@gmail.com
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Views Tuesday, February 11, 2020 Asbestos, Ubiquitous and Avoidable, Is a Deadly Threat to Our Kids In the United States, gun violence kills nearly 40,000 people a year and has killed nearly 40,000 or so children and teenagers since 1999, and yet the nation is still without serious gun control. Another 40,000 people die each year in traffic accidents, including 1,200 children 14 and under. Yet we... Read more |
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Views Friday, January 24, 2020 EPA’s New Water Rule a Mockery of Science and the Clean Water Act With the Environmental Protection Agency’s own data showing that nearly half of our rivers and streams and a third of our wetlands are in “poor biological condition,” and with millions of Americans exposed to unsafe chemicals in water systems, this is a bad time to make a mockery of the Clean Water... Read more |
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Views Monday, December 16, 2019 Toxic Injustice and the Green New Deal A sobering afternoon in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago with Antonio Lopez showed what any Green New Deal must undo , let alone do. Five miles southwest of the glittering downtown Loop, this gutsy neighborhood of some 74,000 people, 85 percent of whom are Latino, is a crowning citadel of... Read more |
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Views Sunday, October 20, 2019 Natural Gas vs. Renewable Energy: Beware the Latest Gas Industry Talking Points The natural gas industry is on an aggressive public relations tear to convince Americans that for decades to come, it is the “bridge” between coal and renewable energy. The campaign is loaded with disinformation. The American Petroleum Institute (API) says it’s pushing gas as a “foundation for the... Read more |
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Views Sunday, January 20, 2019 Trump Swamp Threatens Waters of the US Last month, the Trump EPA finally issued its intended replacement to the Obama administration’s Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule. Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler and R.D. James, the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, wrote in the Kansas City Star that less stringent... Read more |
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Views Friday, July 06, 2018 How Dangerous is New EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler? Very. Here’s Why. With Scott Pruitt’s resignation as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency amid a slew of ethics scandals, environmentalists who long campaigned for his ouster should be careful what they wished for. That is because the acting administrator of the EPA is now Andrew Wheeler, formerly... Read more |
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Views Friday, February 03, 2017 Kraft, Belichick, and Brady — All the President’s Men As certain as it is that Robert Kraft, Bill Belichick, and Tom Brady will one day be in pro football’s hall of fame, they are no profile in courage. They are delivering, on sport’s biggest stage, a textbook example of enabling a bully. On the eve of their seventh Super Bowl together as the... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 17, 2016 Hillary Clinton’s Black Conversion Failing to win white voters in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton needs her black firewall like never before. Her speech yesterday in Harlem touched on criminal justice and economic opportunity. Those remarks follow a stop in majority-black Flint, Mich., to decry its lead-water crisis, and a debate in... Read more |
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Views Saturday, February 13, 2016 Supreme Court Thumbs Its Nose at a Clean Energy Future The Supreme Court's stay of President Obama’s Clean Power Pla n is not the final blow to the Obama administration’s climate change policy, but it seems directly aimed at tarnishing the president’s environmental legacy. The ruling virtually guarantees that, even if the plan survives court challenges... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, October 20, 2015 Memo to Hillary Clinton: What’s Not to Like About Denmark? Dear Hillary Clinton, You looked so proud of yourself when you threw Denmark under the bus at last week’s presidential debate. You couldn’t wait to jump all over Bernie Sanders’ suggestion that the United States should look to Denmark, Sweden, and Norway as models of free health care, free... Read more |