✨NEW ✨ WE ACT’s latest StoryMap → We NEED #CleanEnergy now: BUT “permitting reform” deregulation of laws like #NEPA that protect against pollution is not the answer: arcg.is/1zK8eH3 LINK IN BIO!
🔎 Here’s the scoop:
→ Environmental justice communities face more negative environmental and health impacts from fossil fuels. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is one major way communities have to speak up for their health and rights, pushing back against polluting projects.
→ Our StoryMap analyzing peer reviewed studies and sharing stories from impacted communities shows that NEPA does not delay, and often helps ensure clean energy projects go smoothly with community buy-in.
→ “#Abundance” fairytales that claim to speed up clean energy projects create abundant pollution and ignore the main barriers to clean energy transition: Fossil fuel lobbies and economic inequality. Requirements to limit pollution are not red tape, they’re essential.
☀️ Here’s what really works to get us to a fair clean energy future:
1) Early and meaningful community engagement
2) Enough funding and staffing within agencies responsible for NEPA
3) Greater interagency coordination
What you can do:
✅Read & share our storymap! LINK IN BIO
✅Tell your reps you want real, just progress and no deregulation through polluter-friendly “permitting reform”
Esri StoryMap by Tali Natter, Albert Yuan, Jordyn Afful, Manuel Salgado, featuring Sowing Justice
Editorial support by Anastasia Gordon, Yosef Robele, Ashley Sullivan, MSc,
💐BLACK ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE HEROES!💐 For #BlackHistoryMonth, and year-round, we must highlight the people who are moving #EnvironmentalJustice forward - past and present. Our first feature is the incredible Marquita Bradshaw of @sowingj in Memphis, Tennessee, nominated by @recyclereinvest , both of the Environmental Justice Leadership Forum @ejforum .
Marquita carries forward the legacy of her mother the late, great Doris Deberry Bradshaw through their organization Sowing Justice, building on the work of environmental justice groups informing their community of the toxic exposure from a military superfund site. Bradshaw also ran for U.S. Senate in 2020, gaining national attention for winning the primary against the establishment candidate, and was the first African American woman to secure a statewide nomination using the traditional organizing model. Today, they utilize Environmental Justice principles to increase civic engagement beyond voting with organizing tools and resources for healthy and safe communities. Learn more at sowingjustice.org.
As we face the greatest rollbacks to environmental justice and public health in our time, we must remember that each of us contributes to the long arc bending towards justice. By highlighting the people who have been making it happen and are leading this work today, we are reminded that we the people - each of us - hold the power to create the world we need.
Tell us who your Black Environmental Justice Heroes are in the comments below! Learn more about Black history and environmental justice in our StoryMap at bit.ly/blackhistoryej LINK IN BIO!
Moderator, @centerforearthethics Karenna Gore, with panelists Deeohn Ferris and Charlotte Keys sharing their message to @cop30nobrasil in the Self-Organized Mississippi Global Ethical Stocktake Dialogue during a panel as part of the Mississippi Statewide Environmental Justice Climate Change Summit at Tougaloo College, in Jackson, MS, on October 25, 2025.
We are excited to share Voices from the Global Ethical Stocktake, a dynamic platform that elevates ideas shared in the GES, a groundbreaking initiative from the Brazilian COP30 leadership.
The project features voices from the North America GES Dialogue - which Center for Earth Ethic’s Karenna Gore co-led alongside Brazil’s Minister of the Environment and Climate Change @marinasilvaoficial - as well as Self-Organized Dialogue’s that CEE participated in.
See the full voices project on our website here: /voices-from-the-global-ethical-stocktake/
You can also learn more about CEE’s involvement at COP 30 here: /blog/cee-to-bring-voices-from-the-global-ethical-stocktake-to-cop30/
Reel by @duffymariephoto
#COP30 #GlobalEthicalStocktake #Voices #ClimateJustice #Mississippi TougalooCollege JesusPeopleAgainstPollution JPAP
The Memphis and Shelby County Air Pollution Control Board is scheduled to meet on Monday, December 15, 2025, to hear arguments on motions filed by the parties to an appeal of air construction permit No. 01156-01PC issued to CTC Property LLC located at
3231 Paul R Lowry Road, Memphis, Tennessee 38109.
Location for the Air Board Meeting:
University of Memphis- University Center
499 University Drive
Memphis, Tennessee 38111
Date:
December 15, 2025
Time:
9:30 AM
For decades, noxious, cancer-causing gases poured from some of the nation’s largest industrial polluters, seeping invisibly from cracks in antiquated pipes or billowing out of smokestacks in plumes that choked the communities nearby.
And for decades, the Environmental Protection Agency tracked those emissions not by monitoring the air but by relying on a kind of honor system. Companies were allowed to estimate their chemical pollution using methods that even the EPA conceded were often unreliable. Read more on propublica.org #climatecrisis #environment
#EnvironmentalJustice is moving forward, regardless of a government #shutdown! This week, Environmental Justice Leadership Forum members from across the U.S. - from Illinois to North Carolina - are meeting with their Congressional representative offices to discuss local needs, community projects, and federal level impacts as a result of historic rollbacks.
Together, #EJLF members are advancing local laws on cumulative impacts, sharing key research and data on disproportionate pollution, and providing community-driven solutions to create a healthier, safer, more affordable country for everyone.
Learn more and get involved at ejforum.org and follow us @ejforum
@sowingj Executive Director Marquita Bradshaw joins the In @bredl_hq also known as the Our Backyard podcast to unpack the environmental injustices unfolding in Tennessee — from Elon Musk’s data centers in Memphis to TVA’s growing methane gas expansion.
Tune in to hear how communities are fighting back to protect their health, land, and future.
🎧 Listen now — link in bio.
✨IMPORTANT✨ WE ACT’s latest StoryMap → “permitting reform” deregulation of laws like #NEPA that protect against pollution is not the answer for clean energy: arcg.is/1zK8eH3
🔎 Here’s the scoop:
→ Environmental justice communities face more negative environmental and health impacts from fossil fuels. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is one major way communities have to speak up for their health and rights, pushing back against polluting projects.
→ Our StoryMap analyzing peer reviewed studies and sharing stories from impacted communities shows that NEPA does not delay, and often helps ensure clean energy projects go smoothly with community buy-in.
→ #Abundance” fairytales that claim to speed up clean energy projects create abundant pollution and ignore the main barriers to clean energy transition: Fossil fuel lobbies and economic inequality. Requirements to limit pollution are not red tape, they’re essential.
☀️ Here’s what really works to get us to a fair clean energy future:
1) Early and meaningful community engagement
2) Enough funding and staffing within agencies responsible for NEPA
3) Greater interagency coordination
What you can do:
✅Read & share our storymap! arcg.is/1zK8eH3
✅Tell your reps you want real, just progress and no deregulation through polluter-friendly “permitting reform”
Esri StoryMap by Tali Natter, Albert Yuan, Jordyn Afful, Manuel Salgado, featuring Sowing Justice
Editorial support by Anastasia Gordon, Yosef Robele, Ashley Sullivan, MSc
