environmental justice
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Amazon Workers Are Petitioning the Company To Bring Its Pollution to Zero By 2030
Ahead of Amazon’s planned shareholder meeting on May 26, more than 600 employees have signed a petition pressuring the company to bring its pollution levels down to zero by 2030 — particularly in the communities of colour that predominantly border Amazon’s warehouses.
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UN Warns World Is Failing to Prepare for Climate Change, But We Can Fix That
If world leaders don’t seriously step up their game to adapt to the climate crisis, we’ll see catastrophic human and economic losses everywhere, a new report from the world’s top global environmental authority warns.
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More Than Half a Million People in Major U.S. Cities Don’t Have Access to Running Water
More than 1 million U.S. residents are living without running water, and many of them live in large, wealthy cities, new research shows.
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Judge Shuts Down Dakota Access Pipeline
In a stunning win for the environmental justice movement, a court just ordered that the Dakota Access Pipeline must be shut down.