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Agents of Change: Amplifying neglected voices in environmental justice

EHN is teaming up with The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health to bring you the voices of next generation environmental justice leaders


2020-2021 cohort

10 environmental research bloopers

Environmental injustice and disability: Where is the research?

Putting people at the center of medicine, research, and policy

My island does not want to be resilient. We want a reclamation.

Helicopter science doesn’t work—environmental justice comes from empowered communities

Is it up to consumers, businesses, or politicians to tackle toxics? All of the above.

Black communities must lead the charge to repair harm from freeways

“Allow suffering to speak:” Treating the oppressive roots of illness

environmental justice medicine health

A disability should not be a death sentence during a natural disaster

wildfire climate change

Want more clean energy? Focus on people, not technology

Keep your Whole Foods gift card. We want systemic change.

research environmental justice

Youth activism alone cannot save us: A case for intergenerational environmental coalitions

children climate change

Striving for dignity in homelessness research and outreach

homelessness research justice

New fellows seek to reimagine science communication

environmental justice

LISTEN: Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast

Past fellows 

2019-2020 cohort

Cars on the highway at night
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Car dependency and US environmental health research

U.S. health research has long focused on car pollution; now scientists say the bigger threat may be car dependency itself.

Read the Full Article on www.thelancet.com
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Conceptualizing climate vulnerability in health sciences

Climate change is increasingly understood as a public health emergency, but training the workforce to respond to it remains an unresolved challenge.

Read the Full Article on www.mdpi.com
Fishing boat on open water with oil drilling rig in the background
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Trump cabinet exempts Gulf drilling from species protections

The unprecedented move from a rarely used Endangered Species Committee granted the broadest exemption in the law’s history.
Read the Full Article on www.eenews.net
Methane flaring at desert fracking sites
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Invisible plumes and ‘terrible pollution’: the reality of the US gas sites rated ‘grade A’

Guardian investigation into reliability of methane certification issued by MiQ reveals the weakness of voluntary model.

Read the Full Article on www.theguardian.com
Oil and gas facility flaring excess methane at night
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EPA’s Aaron Szabo once helped write oil industry argument against methane rules

Before becoming a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry. Metadata shows he helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA objecting to controls on methane emissions.
Read the Full Article on www.propublica.org
A various headshots of a woman in varying states of emotion
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The emotional contradictions of climate messaging

Two new analyses of media and social posts reveal some unexpected twists — climate advocates warn of crisis while offering optimism, and skeptics lean on "science."

Read the Full Article on www.anthropocenemagazine.org
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The Trump administration’s new biofuels targets threaten carbon-rich rainforests

The U.S. doesn’t have enough bio-based diesel to meet the administration’s new mandate, so blenders will have to import yet more foreign crop-based oils.
Read the Full Article on insideclimatenews.org
From our Newsroom
Multiple Houston-area oil and gas facilities that have violated pollution laws are seeking permit renewals

Multiple Houston-area oil and gas facilities that have violated pollution laws are seeking permit renewals

One facility has emitted cancer-causing chemicals into waterways at levels up to 520% higher than legal limits.

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Pennsylvania health advocates say Trump’s first 100 days in office have caused “100 harms” to local communities

Pennsylvania health advocates say Trump’s first 100 days in office have caused “100 harms” to local communities

“They're terrorizing these scientists because they want to keep them silent.”

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Regulators are underestimating health impacts from air pollution: Study

Regulators are underestimating health impacts from air pollution: Study

"The reality is, we are not exposed to one chemical at a time.”

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Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro speaks with the state flag and American flag behind him.

Two years into his term, has Gov. Shapiro kept his promises to regulate Pennsylvania’s fracking industry?

A new report assesses the administration’s progress and makes new recommendations

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silhouette of people holding hands by a lake at sunset

An open letter from EPA staff to the American public

“We cannot stand by and allow this to happen. We need to hold this administration accountable.”

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wildfire retardants being sprayed by plane

New evidence links heavy metal pollution with wildfire retardants

“The chemical black box” that blankets wildfire-impacted areas is increasingly under scrutiny.

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