Tag Archives: environmental justice

You’re listening to Eco Report for January 26th, 2024. Later in the program, we will listen to Part 4 by Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze as he speaks with a homesteader and sustainability educator from Spencer, Indiana about her life journey in academia and as a nature lover from a young age. And now for your environmental reports: Inside Climate Change …

Since 2021, a diverse movement in has challenged the construction of Cop City, which is slated to destroy Atlanta’s South River Forest.  The forest is also known by its Muscogee name, Weelaunee.  The movement has created new intersections between abolitionist and environmental politics, since it is defending a forest with important ecological elements for the surrounding Black community, in order to …

HEADLINES All Stories by Norm Holy In recent months, utilities have repeatedly raised rates to cover the skyrocketing costs of the coal and gas needed to run their plants as well as the energy they had to buy from the grid when some of those plants unexpectedly shut down. In a case that could cast a cloud on the Hoosier …

HEADLINES The Observer, the student newspaper at Notre Dame, reports the university has pledged to become a carbon-neutral campus by 2050, University President Friar John Jenkins announced last Friday. —Norm Holy IndyStar reports that an Indiana University scientist will lead an ambitious effort to determine the effect toxic chemicals have on an indigenous community in Alaska — research that might …

A British Petroleum refinery in northwest Indiana repeatedly violated air pollution standards for soot emissions between 2015 and 2018, a federal judge ruled in a lawsuit brought by environmental advocates, as reported by the Associated Press. —Norm Holy Indiana Public Radio reports that one of Indiana’s largest coal plants is expected to close in the next seven years. Indiana Michigan …

Welcome to our Environmental Justice episode of Hearabouts: Asian American Midwest Radio with Meloddy Gao and Cindy Nguyen! Hearabouts is produced by WFHB and Indiana University’s Asian Culture Center. We ask critical questions about identity, culture, community and shared assumptions.  In this episode we talk with Cindy Nguyen about environmental justice and her experiences with environmental education. Her background is …

This week, we share an urgent statement from the Free Alabama Movement about their ongoing hunger strike and economic blackout. Afterwards, we speak with David Pellow, Fabiana Lake, and Camber Wilson, who recently coauthored a report on ‘Environmental Justice Struggles in Prisons and Jails Around the World,’  via the Prison Environmental Justice Project.  Environmental justice is an even more important …