With Federal Environmental Justice Programs Gutted, a Scholar Makes the Case for a More Confrontational Path

Filed by Terra Bloom

The tools the environmental justice movement spent decades building are being pulled apart. The Biden administration’s Justice40 initiative—meant to steer 40 percent of the benefits of federal climate spending toward “disadvantaged” communities—has been unwound, and the Trump administration has moved to terminate environmental justice grants, some mid-project. Lemir Teron’s timing could hardly be sharper. In […]