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60+ Environmental Justice Advocates and Groups Issue Coronavirus Call to Action Demanding End to 'Sacrifice Zones'

Citizens wearing protective masks form lines to receive free food from a food pantry run by the Council of Peoples Organization on May 8, 2020 in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. (Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

States Overwhelmed by Coronavirus Pandemic Face Another Health Hazard as Massive Dust Plume Heads Toward Southern US

Julia Conley, staff writer

People with respiratory ailments in Texas and Florida, where hospitals are nearing capacity with Covid-19 patients, may find little healthcare support if the dust plume exacerbates their conditions.

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'Shell Must Not Get Away With This': Niger Delta Still Waiting for Big Oil to Clean Up Devastating Pollution

Jenna McGuire, staff writer

Fisherman push their boat during low tide on oily mud in the river at Ogoniland's village of K-Dere, near Bodo, which is part of the Niger Delta region, on February 20, 2019. -Decades of oil spills has left the Ogoniland region in southern Nigeria an environmental disaster zone. (Photo: should read YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)

"After nine years of promises without proper action and decades of pollution,...

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Trump-Connected Fossil Fuel Companies Permitted to Delay Payments of $56 Million in Pollution Fines During Pandemic

Julia Conley, staff writer

" People are struggling to find rent money for next month, but thank god the...

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A health worker takes samples from a man to test him for Covid-19 at the Biological Sciences unit of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) in Mexico City on May 25, 2020.

Hundreds of Medical Professionals and Groups Say Covid-19 Stimulus Plans Must Be Prescriptions for #HealthyRecovery

Cyclists travel in central London on May 12, 2020, during the novel coronavirus pandemic. The British government on Monday published what it said was a "cautious roadmap" to ease the seven-week coronavirus lockdown in England, notably recommending people wear facemasks in some public settings.

'The Future We Want': London Joining Global Trend of Car-Free Streets to Cut Pollution, Fight Covid-19

Grand Canyon

Instead of Protecting Public Health During Covid-19 Crisis, Trump Moves to Prop Up 'Dirty, Dying' Uranium Mining Industry

Trump EPA 'Defies Logic' With Emission Standard Rule—Even as Experts Warn Air Pollution Makes Coronavirus More Deadly

Decades of Heavy Air Pollution Could Make Some Areas More Likely to See High Coronavirus Death Toll: Study

In Super Tuesday 'News Dump,' EPA Expands Rule Limiting Science the Agency Can Use to Make Public Health Policy Decisions

Coral and fish community in the Great Barrier Reef,

'On a Knife Edge': Experts Warn Great Barrier Reef Could Soon See Third Mass Coral Bleaching in Five Years

Formosa plant protesters

Groups Challenge Louisiana Permits for Formosa Plastics' Giant Petrochemical Complex in Cancer Alley

A protester wears a dust mask while holding placard saying "Right to Clean Air is a Human Right" during a Jan. 23, 2020 rally.

'Mass Murder': New Report Says Air Pollution From Fossil Fuel Combustion Causing 4.5 Million Deaths Each Year

ground beetle on a plant

Save the Insects, Save Ourselves: Researchers Sound Alarm on Bugpocalypse

Humanity Risking 'Global Disaster' as Material Consumption Passes 100 Billion Tons Annually

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Warning of 'Environmental Ruin and With It a Human Tragedy,' Report Details Triple Threat to Coral Reefs

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Making Polluters Pay In Flint Et Al

Joining the furious voices of poisoned Flint residents seeking even "an ounce of accountability," Green For All marked Earth Day by launching a national campaign calling on polluters to pay for what they break via a modified carbon tax to be invested back into the communities they trash. The campaign will start in Flint, where, says one resident, "People out here are mad as hell."

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The Center for Climate Integrity

Minnesota A.G. Ellison Sues Exxon, Koch Industries for Lying About Climate Change

350.org

MN350, 350.org Applaud Minnesota Lawsuit Holding Big Oil Accountable for History of Lying About Climate Damage

Friends of the Earth

Shell's Oil Pollution: Niger Delta People "Sick of Waiting" for Justice...

As You Sow

Companies Fail to Address Plastic Pollution Crisis, Report Finds No Corporate Leaders, Many Laggards

Western Environmental Law Center

Trump Exploits Public Health and Racial Crises to Silence Public, Increase Pollution, Steamroll Vulnerable Communities

Food & Water Watch

Court Rejects Meatpacker’s Efforts to Kill Lawsuit Over Slaughterhouse Pollution in South Platte River

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Adam Carlesco

Why Trump Wants To Kill The Biggest Environmental Law You've Never Heard Of

Mark Hertsgaard

Climate-Justice Stories Are in Every Community, Waiting to Be Told

Janis Petzel

Let’s Pay Attention to What COVID-19 Is Trying to Tell Us About Climate Change

Robert Reich

A Tale of Two Pandemics

Kumar Venkat, Susan Cholette

Emerging From the Pandemic With a Climate Plan

Derrick Z. Jackson

The EPA’s Dirty Water: New Rule Discards Science, Ignores Importance of Wetlands and Tributaries

Molly Walsh

Coronavirus Relief: Let's Rebuild the New World We Need

Tara Lohan

Ten Years After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, We’re on Course to Repeat One of Our Worst Mistakes

Ralph Nader

Stopping Trump’s Demonic Reversals of the Long-term Benefits of the First Earth Day April 22, 1970

Jeff Biggers

An Earth Day After Coal: Amid All the Bad News, A Major Turning Point