Photo by Filip Bunkens on Unsplash The climate crisis is colliding with the criminal justice system America’s most vulnerable are forced to navigate multiple injustices and they aren’t adequately prepared. Here’s why.
Solutions Image by Dave Horalek from Pixabay ‘Memorial to all who suffered’: survivors protest wind farm near Japanese American incarceration site About 13,000 people were held at the Minidoka camp during the second world war. Now, a green energy project threatens the ‘sacred’ place.
Causes Asian Development Bank/Flickr Leading environmentalists decry crackdown on Vietnam climate activists Letter from Goldman prize winners aims to block country’s bid to join UN’s human rights council over its jailing of campaigners
Politics www.nytimes.com Conviction of Don Blankenship, ex-coal baron, should be overturned, judge recommends A federal magistrate judge said prosecutors should have turned over documents that could have helped Mr. Blankenship’s case.
Impacts www.newyorker.com For the families of people in prison, hurricanes bring extra panic and uncertainty Men and women incarcerated in Florida were not evacuated during Hurricane Michael. Their loved ones feared for their safety for days.
As Biden prepares to block the sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel, pollution concerns persist in Pennsylvania
A Pennsylvania fracking company with more than 2,000 environmental violations selected for federal environmental justice funding
Op-ed: “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you” — disabling environments in Cancer Alley and the Ohio River Valley
