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Golden Parachutes: Profit and Poison
By: Julia Weil, Organizing Intern Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we have increasingly seen many s...
Indigenous People and Environmental Genocide
By: Shaina Smith, Organizing Intern The relationship between Native Americans and the United States ...
The Wait for Cleanup Continues … Government Keeps Family Waiting
By: Sharon Franklin, Chief of Operations The danger arrived for Kim and Richard Rankin and their fam...
The Rachel Carson Amendment
Our colleague and friend Lou Zeller at the Blue Ridge Environmental League (BREDL) shared an article...
No We Still Aren’t Done. Honestly, I can’t wait for 2020 to be done.
This year has been one of the most challenging since I fought along side my neighbors in Love Canal....
Military Service Members and Their Families Exposed to Cancer-Causing Chemicals in Their Drinking Water
By: Kayleigh Coughlin, Communications Intern The Department of Defense (DOD) has found that more tha...
Reforming Our Response to Toxics
By: Benjamin Silver, Science and Technology Intern The government’s inefficient response to toxic ...
Fighting Polluters with the Science of Environmental Justice in the COVID-19 Era
By: Leija Helling, Communications Intern As evidence highlighting the racial inequity of COVID-19 im...
Particulate Matter in the Air is a Huge Risk Factor for COVID-19
By: Mihir Vohra, Research Associate Particulate matter (PM) is a form of air pollution composed of a...
Incarcerated Workers Among Hardest Hit By Wildfires
By: Shaina Smith, Community Organizing Intern Massive wildfires fuelled by climate change have damag...
Please Stop Screaming – Let’s Listen To One Another
Recently, I’ve been discussing presidential politics, as all of us have. Even if you try to avoid ...
The Life of an Intern at CHEJ
By Sophie Weinberg, CHEJ Science Intern, Summer 2020. This summer was unusual to say the least. Desp...
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