greenjustice
A collection of all news articles tagged with Green Justice
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Is Obama's goal of diversity trumping other goals?
Three recent Obama nominations have drawn flak from environmentalists.
by Ray Ring, Sep 03, 2009 -
The dark side of dairies
A combination of lax laws and poor oversight leaves dairy workers vulnerable to exploitation and on-the-job dangers.
by Rebecca Clarren, Aug 24, 2009 -
On the waterfront
Bay Area environmental leader Whitney Dotson works to restore his community's waterways -- and health.
by Jeremy Miller, Jun 07, 2009 -
Rebooting Urban Watersheds
In California, grassroots activists work to restore damaged East Bay waterways and the impoverished communities that surround them.
by Jeremy Miller, Jun 07, 2009 -
Army targets southeastern Colorado rangelands
When the Army tries to expand a training site, patriotic ranchers feel as if they are under siege.
by Chris Frasier, May 30, 2009 -
INNOVATE, Part III
Westerners have a knack for new and innovative thinking, such as: Redefining rancher politics, A rediscovered renewable, Creating public nooks and crannies and more.
by Marty Durlin, Ray Ring, Sandra Tassel, Sarah Gilman, Terray Sylvester, Jennifer Anderson , Mar 12, 2009 -
The Half-life of Memory
A writer tries to dig up the buried history of Colorado’s Rocky Flats weapons plant, now home to a controversial wildlife refuge.
by Hannah Nordhaus, Feb 17, 2009 -
Digging deep
An innovative local program helps Hispanic heroin addicts recover by renewing their ties to the land.
by Angela Garcia, Dec 02, 2008 -
On Cancer’s Trail
The women in Stefanie Raymond-Whish’s family have a history of breast cancer, and the young Navajo biologist wants to know whether the uranium on the reservation might have something to do with it.
by Florence Williams, May 26, 2008 -
Tireless and tenacious storytelling
Lori Edmo-Suppah works tirelessly to keep the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes informed through the newspaper she edits, the Sho-Ban News
by Ray Ring, Dec 24, 2007 -
Coal’s other mess
Even as the air over power plants clears, the coal combustion waste on the ground gets worse – and the EPA seems disinclined to deal with the problem.
by Jonathan Thompson, Nov 26, 2007 -
Disposable workers of the oil and gas fields
Without a college degree, work on the oil and gas fields is the best job you can get in the rural West – unless, of course, it kills you
by Ray Ring, Apr 02, 2007 -
Navajos pay for industry's mistakes
The federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act was created to compensate uranium miners and mill workers sickened by their jobs, but on the Navajo Reservation, Dr. Bruce Baird Struminger says the program has proved flawed
by Laura Paskus, Sep 24, 2006 -
Land of Disenchantment
A native New Mexican tries to understand the heroin epidemic that is destroying the Hispano community of the Espanola Valley
by Angela Garcia, Apr 03, 2006 -
In a run-down neighborhood, there's lots of love
In a hardscrabble neighborhood in northeast Denver, Lorraine Granado fights for environmental justice
by Julie Dugdale, Jun 13, 2005 -
Libby tested environmentalists, who came up short
The writer says environmentalists cared so much about wildlife and public lands that they missed a deadly mess in Libby, Montana
by Ray Ring, Mar 02, 2005 -
Where were the environmentalists when Libby needed them most?
The story of Libby, Montana, where hundreds have died from mining pollution, raises questions about the environmental movement itself.
by Ray Ring, Feb 25, 2005 -
What child labor laws?
The effects of pesticides on farmworker children are often overlooked, because children are not supposed to work in the fields in the first place
by Rebecca Clarren, Sep 29, 2003 -
It’s time for some solidarity
It’s high time for the environmental movement to join with farmworker activists in their fight for fair treatment and protection from dangerous pesticides
by Ray Ring, Sep 29, 2003 -
Harvesting Poison
In the little-seen world of immigrant farmworkers, pesticides are a constant threat — and for the workers, the only options are shutting up or getting out
by Rebecca Clarren, Sep 29, 2003
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