Justice
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Clean Energy Policy in 2025: A Rundown on Recent Federal Policy Shifts
Author: Jessie Satovsky Editors: Victoria Maza and Maria Mendoza The second Trump administration has been running an offensive against the U.S. energy sector, taking aim at clean energy like wind and solar and promoting coal, oil, and natural gas. These actions are in line with the administration’s stance against clean energy, but these developments are…
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Far From Home: Climate Displacement and Immigration in the Trump Era
Author: Anissa Patel Editor: Clara Conry Our federal and state governments must recognize the reality of climate displacement and acknowledge the need for improved immigration systems that cater specifically to CDPs. Many of the immigrants to the United States arrive fleeing persecution or dangerous conditions in their home countries. While these conditions are typically pressing,…
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Federally Mandated Erasure: Where is EJScreen?
Author: Sonya Doubledee Editor: Victoria Maza “Attempting to delete the data is an explicit attempt to erase the most recent scientific data on environmental health outcomes and suppress public understanding of how manufacturing and production put human health at risk.” – Anonymous As of early February, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) EJScreen Tool (Environmental Justice Mapping…
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Trump, the Court, and Climate
Author: Darby Osborne Editor: Natalia Freeze Trump and the conservative movement have identified the Supreme Court as a necessary instrument to achieve their vision of a weakened federal government with fewer regulatory powers. Following last term’s overturning of the Chevron doctrine, the landscape of environmental regulation has been fundamentally altered. To understand the gravity of…
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Fueling the Crisis: Trump Guts Green Policies in the Name of Inflation Relief
Author: Natalia Freeze Editor: Clara Conry What is clear is that these rollbacks will have a disastrous impact on climate change, which will hurt the cost-of-living for American families. Since taking office in January, President Trump has issued a staggering number of executive orders. His directives targeting renewable energy, environmental justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion…
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Putting People over Politics: The Glaring Holes in Trump’s New SoCal Executive Order
Author: Jessie Satovsky Editor: Clara Conry and Sonya Doubledee President Trump’s second term in office began with a bang. He signed 26 executive orders (EO) on Inauguration Day, on issues including immigration, government structure changes, and the environment. While many of these orders were related to the President’s campaign promises, this ambitious start raises many…
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Regulatory Hypothermia: The Trump Administration’s Federal Freeze
Author: Sonya Doubledee Editor: Natalia Freeze While this memorandum alone may not be the government’s final straw, the atmosphere of stagnation only adds to the confusion, as Trump releases a litany of executive orders. Governmental institutions are preparing to go into hibernation under the Trump Administration’s “Regulatory Freeze Pending Review.” Law firms are fervently releasing briefs…
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Trump’s Executive Orders Unraveled Decades of Environmental Justice Efforts
Author: Tula Larsen Editors: Clara Conry and Sonya Doubledee The termination of EO 12898 eliminates this impact assessment of low-income minority communities in environmental health issues, as well as opportunities to participate and receive accessible information. On January 20th, 2025, President Donald Trump was sworn into office for his second term. The Trump Administration signed…
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Food Deserts and Food Waste: Goodr’s Holistic Blueprint to Solve Both
Author: Natalia Freeze Editors: Clara Conry and Sonya Doubledee Amid the extreme wealth disparities across America, the sharp contrast between one family’s casual food waste and another’s daily struggle for fresh food highlights the urgency of addressing this imbalance. The city of Atlanta, celebrated for its vibrant cosmopolitan atmosphere and enduring Southern charm, harbors a…
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Corn is In Everything (and why that’s a bad thing)
Author: Natalia Freeze Editor: Sonya Doubledee It can feel overwhelming, standing against the monolith of industrial agriculture, a system so vast and entrenched that individual action seems insignificant and helpless. For over ten millennia, corn has been a vital staple of human agriculture, first cultivated by the Indigenous peoples of ancient Mexico. Among the Iroquois…
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