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Our community deserves to know if we are breathing toxic air. The air we breathe is being polluted, but how much? With what chemicals? Memphis Community Against Pollution and The Center of Engagement Environmental Justice and Health ( @ceejhaction ) has been collecting data and will present a report on Thursday, 5/21! Please register to join us at

If we could change one thing in Baltimore, it would be this. Every household with access to rooftop solar. No cost. Starting with low income homeowners across the city. That is not a fantasy. That is what energy justice actually looks like when the people most burdened by the system are the ones the solution is built for. Right now, the families with the highest energy bills are the same families breathing the dirtiest air, living closest to the power plants, and watching their utility costs climb every season. Renewable energy gets framed as a luxury. But for frontline communities, it is a lifeline. Clean energy should not be a privilege. It should be a right. And that right should reach the people who have been carrying the cost of dirty energy the longest. If we want a just future, this is where it starts.

The country turns 250 this year. America’s been writing its own story for 2½ centuries... and a lot of us weren’t in the first draft. Registration is open for the 12th Annual CEEJH Environmental Justice & Health Disparities Symposium: EJ 2076: Make America JUST Again A 50-Year Plan to Advance Democracy, Environmental Justice, and Health Equity Virtual: Sept 15-17, 2026 In-Person: Sept 18-19 @ Bowie State University, Bowie MD Five days with the people closest to the fight. The movement is under attack. The movement is still here. Register now. If cost is a barrier, reach out.

Last Wednesday, we sat down with the people fighting one of the most urgent environmental justice battles of our time. Data Centers and the Digital Sacrifice Zone brought together four powerful voices to break down what is actually at stake in Prince George’s County, Memphis, and beyond. Dr. Sacoby Wilson on the science. Taylor Frazier McCollum on the grassroots fight. Staci Hartwell on what she witnessed from inside the task force. Keshaun Pearson on what Memphis is already living through. Swipe to read the highlights. This fight is just beginning.

Join us this Thursday at 12 PM EST for a discussion on “Energy Democracy & Pathways to a Just Transition.” We will explore how the current energy system has long failed BIPOC, marginalized, & frontline communities by concentrating pollution, disinvestment, & economic extraction in the places most impacted by environmental injustice. As the urgency of the climate crisis grows, there is a need, and opportunity, to fundamentally transform not just where we get energy from, but who controls it, who owns it, & who benefits from it. Energy democracy is a framework that can make this transformation possible. Our invited speakers will provide a foundational understanding of how the current energy system operates, why energy insecurity and utility shutoffs remain widespread across the US, & how communities are challenging the monopoly of investor-owned utilities over the basic right to electricity. Speakers will also explore the connections between energy affordability, workforce development, and a just transition, highlighting how access to good green jobs for youth and adults can build community wealth & long-term resilience. Through examples & critical discussion, the session will equip participants to better understand the structural inequities embedded in the energy system & envision pathways toward more just, affordable, community-centered energy futures. You will hear from: Brian Geiringer (Executive Director of @a2publicpower ): Brian is an ecosocialist abolitionist community organizer in SE Michigan where they have been deeply involved in campaigns for affordable housing, labor victories, & community power, and against data centers, surveillance, & gentrification. Sneha Ayyagari (Director of Policy, @risingsunopp ): Sneha focuses on policy advocacy & implementation efforts to advance equitable access to good quality jobs in the clean energy & sustainable construction industries. Tyler LaBerge (Strategic Projects Coordinator, @energyequityproject ): She focuses on strategic visioning, improving public access of EEP tools & resources, storytelling, & evaluation of past and current projects, & frontline partner outreach & support. Thurs 5/14 12-1PM EST 🔗

The environmental justice movement has a blind spot. We document the air pollution. We measure the water contamination. We map the cumulative environmental burdens. We rarely talk about what carrying all of it does to the people who actually live there. The anxiety of checking the air quality before your kids go outside. The grief of watching your neighbors get sick and knowing exactly why. The exhaustion of fighting permits you never knew were filed. There is a word for it. Solastalgia. The grief of watching your home become unlivable while you are still living in it. Frontline communities have been living it for generations. This Mental Health Awareness Month, we are naming it. Save this. Share it with someone who needs to read it.

“The very air we breathe is under assault.” William Joseph Barber III. 2025 CEEJH Environmental Justice Symposium. The water poisoned. The children’s health jeopardized. Decisions made in back rooms where justice never gets a seat at the table. This is what environmental racism looks like in practice. And this is exactly why we keep fighting.

Data centers are coming for our communities. And nobody is asking for permission. TOMORROW🚨Wednesday night. 6:30 PM EDT. CEEJH is hosting an urgent conversation you do not want to miss. Data Centers and the Digital Sacrifice Zone: Community vs. County. Two Reports. One Reality. We are bringing together community advocates, NAACP, and frontline leaders to talk about what data center development is actually doing to Black and Brown neighborhoods - the air, the water, the energy bills, and the health of our communities. This conversation is a fight for our neighborhoods. Wednesday May 6. 6:30 - 8:00 PM EDT. Zoom + Live Streamed on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook. SPEAKERS: Dr. Sacoby Wilson | CEEJH Krys White | CEEJH (Moderator) Staci Hartwell | South County Environmental Justice Coalition @scejcmd Abré Conner | Center for Environmental and Climate Justice, NAACP @naacp Taylor Frazier McCollum | No Landover Data Center Movement @nolandoverdata Keshaun Pearson | Memphis Community Against Pollution @memphiscap_org @keshaunpearson Register now - 🔗Link in Bio

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Who decided which D.C. neighborhoods get clean air and which ones get asthma? Wards 7 and 8 are majority Black communities that were on the receiving end of decades of poor environmental decisions. Highways routed through. Industrial facilities sited nearby. Investment pulled out. Pollution left behind. $340 is what an inhaler costs without insurance. And the families who need it most are the ones who’ve been breathing the worst air the longest. At CEEJH we build hyperlocal air quality monitoring networks in the communities official sensors skip. Because you cannot fix what you refuse to measure. The pollution came first. The asthma followed. The inhaler is just the bill. #ceejh #airqualityawarenessweek #environmentaljustice #climatejustice #asthma

TRAP is not trap music. T. Traffic. R. Related. A. Air. P. Pollution. It is what kids breathe when they live near highways that were built through their neighborhoods on purpose. It gets into the lungs. Into the bloodstream. It causes asthma attacks. It sends kids to the emergency room. And in Washington, D.C., the kids breathing the most of it are Black children in Wards 7 and 8 - who are 20 times more likely to end up in the ER for asthma than kids just five miles away. That is not an accident. That is a policy decision. At CEEJH, we put air quality monitors in the communities that official sensors miss. Because you cannot fight what you cannot see. Follow @ceejhaction for more. #environmentaljustice #climatejustice #trafficrelatedairpollution #ceejh #airpollutionawarenessweek

16% of Black children in D.C. have asthma. Only 3.3% of white children do. Kids in Wards 7 and 8 are 20 times more likely to end up in the ER for an asthma attack than kids in Ward 3. Same city. Five miles apart. Completely different air. This is not random. This is racism. Highways were built through Black neighborhoods on purpose. Industrial facilities were placed near low-income communities on purpose. Redlining put the hazards where the power wasn’t. CEEJH puts science in the hands of the people breathing the consequences. Swipe to see the data. Share it so it travels farther. #CEEJH #EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateJustice #WorldAsthmaDay #AirQualityAwarenessWeek