Willy Blackmore, Author at Word In Black - Page 5 of 18

At a public hearing last week, Black residents of a site Elon Musk's company xAI has selected for a new supercomputer project pushed back against the plans, saying it will create even more pollution than the community already deals with.

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Black Folks to Elon Musk: Hands Off Our Neighborhood

by Willy Blackmore April 28, 2025April 28, 2025

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Grok, What Happens in Memphis When You’re Asked a Question?

by Willy Blackmore April 22, 2025April 21, 2025

The Trump administration has dropped out of a deal President Joe Biden reached to end "straight piping," a dangerous, unsanitary method poor households in Lowndes County, Alabama, use to get rid of human waste. Unable to connect to a municipal sewage system, the waste goes straight into a puddle in the yard, creating a public health hazard. The reversal is part of Trump's anti-DEI push, and likely means a rise in mosquito-borne illnesses and parasites.

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Trump’s DOJ Kills a Black County’s Environmental Justice Deal

by Willy Blackmore April 14, 2025April 15, 2025

Why 90°F With Humidity Could Soon Be a Death Sentence

by Willy Blackmore April 7, 2025April 7, 2025

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Climate Justice Isn’t Dead

by Willy Blackmore April 7, 2025April 7, 2025

Senate Democrats want to know whether Lee Zeldin, the Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency administrator, is acting legally as he tries to claw back billions of dollars in federal grants set for underserved communities that are bearing the brunt of industrial pollution and the effects of man-made climate change.

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In EPA’s War on Environmental Justice, the Dems Go on Offense

by Willy Blackmore March 31, 2025March 31, 2025

Marking the official end to climate justice programs, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin closed 10 regional offices that had just received $3 billion from President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act. Zeldin's move likely means more problems for Black and brown communities like Cancer Alley, a mostly Black Louisiana enclave surrounded by chemical plants and oil refineries.

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Trump’s EPA Shuts Down $3B Environmental Justice Program

by Willy Blackmore March 18, 2025March 18, 2025

If the Trump administration and EPA Admimnistrator Lee Zeldin get their way, nonprofits will lose out on $20 billion in funds Congress allocated to protect front-line communities from destruction from storms made worse by climate change.

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Trump’s EPA Just Declared War on Environmental Justice

by Willy Blackmore March 11, 2025March 12, 2025

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Apparently, Planting Trees Is a DEI Plot

by Willy Blackmore March 4, 2025March 4, 2025

The Environmental Protection Agency boasted it canceled a $50 milliion grant for Climate Justice Alliance because members want an independent Palestinian state. But the Biden administration had already shelved the grant, apparently for the same reason.

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EPA Killed a $50M Climate Justice Grant Biden Already Shelved

by Willy Blackmore February 24, 2025February 24, 2025