The Beacon
The Beacon is an environmental justice-focused blog discussing current developments in the law, proposals to achieve more just actions to those disproportionately affected by environmental impacts, and those leading the movements to trailblaze an environmentally just future.
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VLGS Professor Mia Montoya Hammersley shares her unique experience in becoming an environmental justice lawyer, including what inspires her to continue every day.
Learn about a vibrant neighborhood in San Diego, California, and the ways in which Barrio Logan is a prime example of environmental racism.
Local nonprofit BALE uses community-based models to fight economic inequality and climate issues on the home front. Recognizing the climate crisis as intersectional and finding hope and resiliency in one…
The Biden Administration enacted the historical Justice40 Initiative to combat climate change with an Environmental Justice focus. But has this Initiative truly been successful?
Pesticide exposure poses health and safety risks to farmworkers in the United States. Statutes like FIFRA, FDCA, and FQPA lack farmworker protection measures, leading to injustice in the food system.
PFAS brings disproportionate harm to EJ communities like Cancer Alley. The U.S. needs regulation now.
The Biden Administration announced increased EJ funding, but is funding being used equally to benefit the most vulnerable EJ communities?
Food is the fulcrum point for many people to pry away the tentacles of colonization. Food sovereignty is the principle behind the leverage.
Slaughterhouses are endangering communities and threatening the health and well-being of all nearby. FSIS and OSHA need better standards to acknowledge these concerns.
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