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TCI Health Study Shows Benefits, But More Needed to Address Inequitable Air...
Alexander Popov/UnsplashCommunities across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. could see substantial health improvements from just modest changes in air quality, according to a new...
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Top Four Ways that the Biden Administration Can Center Environmental Justice...
Uwe Hermann/WikimediaOne of the greatest tragedies in our country is that many communities—especially communities of color, low-income communities, and Indigenous communities—are unnecessarily...
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Using GIS to Center Equity for Clean Transportation Investments in...
In Massachusetts, communities of color are exposed to about 30 percent more fine particulate matter from transportation than predominantly white communities. At the same time, these communities also...
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Forging Equitable Scientist-Community Partnerships for Citizen Science Projects
In 2014, I met Shaun Crawford at a Science for Action conference in New Orleans. With similar goals for our communities, we struck up a partnership, realizing science had to converge with civic action...
View ArticleCourt Hears Challenge to EPA Science Advice Ban
UCS’s lawsuit challenging the EPA’s policy banning anyone who has received agency funding from sitting on advisory committees got a hearing today in the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Massachusetts....
View ArticleCommunities Face Harm When the EPA Dismantles Chemical Safety Protections
If chemical facilities are regularly catching on fire or exploding in your neighborhood – like the recent TPC Group plant chemical fire near Houston that dangerously blazed during the Thanksgiving...
View ArticleActivism and Action in 2019, a Banner Year for Environmental Justice
This second blog in a series on environmental justice milestones looks at significant EJ actions and activism in 2019.
View ArticleEPA Tried to Allow Dirtier Trucks Without Studying Whether That Would Be Bad...
No, that’s not an Onion headline—a new report from the EPA Office of the Inspector General (OIG) finds that Administrator Scott Pruitt tried to rush through a regulation which would allow the new sale...
View ArticleTrump EPA Doing Something to Actually REDUCE Pollution from Trucks
Today, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) to set more stringent pollution standards on heavy-duty trucks. This follows up on the 2018...
View ArticleEPA Science Advisory Board Should Keep Pushing EPA to Adhere to the Best...
The EPA’s Science Advisory Board is meeting this week and next to discuss the scientific basis for several EPA proposals, including the so-called transparency rule, the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards...
View ArticleWho Breathes the Dirtiest Air from Vehicles in Minnesota?
Most people know that cars, trucks, and buses from our highways and city streets are a significant source of harmful air pollution. While this pollution impacts all communities in the state to some...
View ArticleDark Rhymes for Dark Times: New Storybook Illustrates Threats to Children’s...
Today, the Union of Concerned Scientists releases a storybook for people who care about kids. With colorful illustrations and amusing rhymes, it illustrates how science keeps our children protected—and...
View ArticleBlowing the Cover Off the “Cleanest Air” Sparkle of the Trump Administration
The Trump administration has repeatedly claimed to want clean air—the cleanest air—but behind the administration's rhetoric the truth of its actions still stands. It simply cannot obfuscate away the...
View ArticleExposure to Air Pollution from Vehicles in Illinois Is Inequitable — It...
Exposure to PM2.5 pollution from cars, trucks, and buses varies greatly within Illinois. Concentrations are highest in urban areas and downwind of those areas; Chicago and its immediate surroundings...
View ArticleBig UCS Win! Court Questions EPA Limits on Science Advisory Committees
Now, for some good news: the First Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled that UCS’s lawsuit challenging the politicization of EPA science advisory committees may move forward. UCS sued the agency over a...
View ArticleEPA Watchdog Report Reveals a Failure to Talk to Communities with Higher...
The EPA’s watchdog, the Office of Inspector General (IG), released a report this week that highlights how inadequate EPA’s communication around the hazardous air pollutant, ethylene oxide, has been in...
View ArticleNew Harvard Study Links COVID Deaths and Air Pollution: An Interview with...
A ground-breaking new study finds that people living in counties in the US that have experienced a higher level of air pollution over the past 15-17 years have a substantially higher COVID-19 mortality...
View ArticleNew Legislation Addresses Legacies of Pollution in Environmental Justice...
The Environmental Justice Legacy Pollution Cleanup Act would help address pollution that has been haunting environmental justice communities for decades.
View ArticleDriving Away Dirty Air
Emissions from diesel trucks and buses don’t just release higher levels of air pollution, they are also local in their effects and in Oregon disproportionately impact low-income individuals.
View ArticleHouston We Have a Problem: An Environmental Justice Analysis of Harmful Air...
A UCS team looked closely at an industrial fire's health effects on a fenceline community
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