There’s a growing understanding that racial disparities in the U.S. extend beyond policing, to public health and the environment. Communities of color are more likely to breathe polluted air, live near polluting industries and be exposed to toxic chemicals. And now COVID-19 is disproportionately threatening these same communities
Our guest is environmental justice leader Mustafa Santiago Ali. From 1993-2017, Ali served as Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization and Assistant Associate Administrator as a founding member of the EPA Office of Environmental Justice. But when the Trump administration proposed drastically cutting EPA’s budget and eliminating the Office of Environmental Justice, Ali resigned in protest. Now Ali is the VP of environmental justice at the National Wildlife Federation.
Coronavirus is like Climate Change on Steroids
How Dark Money Fuels Mistrust of Science
EPA to Polluters: Monitor Yourselves
A Dark History
Trump Administration Ending Long-Standing Protections for Migratory Birds
Manipulating Data to Exploit a Disaster
Is this Trump's Biggest Environmental Rollback?
Strengthening Transparency or Silencing Science?
What’s the Future of Global Climate Policies?
Murray Energy, A Major Trump Ally, Goes Bankrupt
One Man's Quest to Transform American Energy
Rick Perry Made Me Do It
Who's Watching the Hogs?
Trump and the Philosophy of Climate Denial
We Watched All Seven Hours of the Climate Town Hall. Here's What You Should Know.
'This is no longer about the science. This is somebody's ideology.'
The Nuclear Dilemma
California v. Trump
Fact Check: Trump’s Environmental Speech
So Long, Clean Power Plan. It Was Nice Knowing You.
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