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EPA Rolls Out Training Grants For Environmental Justice Communities
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has selected 16 Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Centers (EJ TCTACs) in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy that will receive $177 million to help underserved and overburdened...
Featured Connection: Chemical Oceanography
Ocean Acidification and Climate Change Chemical oceanography is considered a niche area within the broader field of oceanography. Along with biological, physical, and geographical oceanography, it is one of the four main oceanographic areas. It is said that chemical...
Is Your Drinking Water Safe?
A new study released today found that the increasing frequency of droughts, heatwaves, storms, and floods is threatening the availability of water and its quality across the world. Researchers from Utrecht University in the Netherlands analyzed 965 cases of river...
The Father of Environmental Justice Reflects on the Movement He Started
Four decades into his activism, Dr. Robert Bullard looks back on his legacy and the work ahead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ol_Zh7Qg4A
The Path to Limiting Global Warming to 1.5 °C has Narrowed, but Clean Energy Growth is Keeping it Open
The update of the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) landmark Net Zero Roadmap shows greater ambition and implementation, supported by stronger international cooperation, will be critical to reaching climate goals. According to the IEA: Driving greenhouse gas...
The Week in Climate Change News
A (non-comprehensive and quite random) list of climate change, climate policy and environmental justice stories from the past week. Climate change: Six young people take 32 countries to court. They accuse the countries of insufficient action over climate change and...
Featured Connection: Marine Engineering
Making Ships Go Marine Engineering is a field of engineering that deals with the design, construction, operation, development, production, and maintenance of the marine equipment that forms a part of seagoing vessels, harbor installations, and docks. While naval...
How Unjust Is Your Environment?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Environmental Justice Index (EJI) ranks communities across the US according to environmental health risk. EJI is the first national geospatial tool to measure the cumulative impacts of social and environmental factors,...
The Week in Climate Change News
A (non-comprehensive and quite random) list of climate change, climate policy and environmental justice stories from the past week. New files shed light on ExxonMobil’s efforts to undermine climate science. Executives privately sought to downplay link between fossil...
American Climate Corps
President Biden announced a new initiative to train young people in high-demand skills for jobs in the clean energy economy. The American Climate Corps is designed to put a new generation of Americans to work conserving our lands and waters, bolstering community...
Featured Connection: Hydrology
Water, Water Everywhere Water is among the most important resources on our planet. Without it, life would not exist. Hydrologists study how water moves across and through Earth’s crust. They study how rain, snow, and other forms...
EPA Watchdog Report: Refineries Can’t Police Themselves
As the Latin expression puts it, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? This is a phrase from the Roman poet Juvenal, which is literally translated as “Who will guard the guards themselves?” Well, according to a new report from the Office of the Inspector General, the...