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Students outside Spelman College, an HBCU for women.

HBCUs Set the Standard for Sustainability in Higher Education

by Anna Littlejohn February 22, 2024August 23, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris visits the Kingsley Association in Larimer, Pa., to announce clean water infrastructure investments on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. (Lucy Schaly/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

Clean Water $5.8 Billion Investment from Biden Administration

by Anna Littlejohn February 20, 2024February 20, 2024

Sustainability as Heritage: Black Communities and Climate Justice

Sustainability as Heritage: Black Communities and Climate Justice

by Anna Littlejohn February 14, 2024August 24, 2024

A flare burns at Venture Global LNG in Cameron, La., April 21, 2022. The new facility, which exports liquefied natural gas, is one of several like it along the Gulf Coast — and tmore are proposed for Louisiana and Texas. The U.S. has become the world’s largest exporter of LNG, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine heightened demand for the fuel as countries in Europe cut their reliance on Russian energy. But the U.S. expansion of LNG facilities has come with consequences for Gulf Coast residents threatened by extreme weather, and for the planet threatened by greenhouse gases. AP PHOTO / MARTHA IRVINE

Biden Administration delays decision for natural gas export terminal

by Anna Littlejohn January 29, 2024January 29, 2024

Myrtle Felton, from left, Sharon Lavigne, Gail LeBoeuf and Rita Cooper, members of RISE St. James, conduct a live stream video on property owned by Formosa on March 11, 2020, in St. James Parish, La. A Louisiana judge has thrown out air quality permits for a Taiwanese company's planned $9.4 billion plastics complex between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022, a rare win for environmentalists in a heavily industrialized stretch of the Mississippi River often referred to as "Cancer Alley."

EPA barred from enforcing Civil Rights regulations in Cancer Alley

by Anna Littlejohn January 29, 2024January 31, 2024

A screen grab from Razing Liberty Square directed by Katja Esson.

Climate Gentrification spotlighted in new PBS documentary

by Anna Littlejohn January 19, 2024January 19, 2024

westwin refinery

Westwin cobalt/nickel refinery faces opposition in Lawton

by Deon Osborne January 18, 2024August 24, 2024

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