by Rania Masri | Jan 4, 2023 | EJ Issues, Human Health & EJ, Partner Organizations
Forty organizations working for environmental justice in North Carolina signed onto a letter by the Southern Environmental Law Center to the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) regarding its allocation of Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) funds. NRCS will...
by Acacia | May 25, 2020 | EJ Indicators, EJ Issues
The Issue The world’s first-ever black wood pellet plant is coming to Lumberton, North Carolina (Robeson County), a predominantly black & low-income rural community already burdened by numerous sources of environmental harm. The community is concerned about...
by Acacia | Aug 22, 2019 | EJ Issues
Every single year, the wood pellet industry destroys tens of thousands of acres of Southern forests, turns them into wood pellets, and ships them overseas to be burned for electricity in faraway power stations. The world’s largest wood pellet producer, Enviva, is...
by Acacia | Jun 12, 2019 | EJ Issues
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality is accepting public comment through July 10 on the continued development of the Community Mapping System with Environmental Justice tool. See talking points on the tool. Unveiled last month, the beta release of...
by Acacia | Apr 12, 2019 | Coal Ash, EJ Issues, Partner Organizations
Check out this op-ed featured in the Goldsboro Daily News, written by our co-director Ayo Wilson & Bobby Jones, with the Down East Coal Ash Environmental and Social Justice Coalition- North Carolina’s electricity system is broken, and the only way to fix it is to...
by Acacia | Feb 5, 2019 | CAFOs, EJ Indicators, EJ Issues
The Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has been required to develop an environmental justice (EJ) mapping tool. They are currently accepting public input on the tool. Scroll to the bottom of the page to find out how you can help! When one heavily polluting...
