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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From Pollution Catastrophe to a Just and Equitable Future By Christian Patierno The armpit of America (as out-of-staters often refer to it), New Jersey, is working to shed this distasteful...
Coming Back to Earth with Agroecology: Regenerating Our Soils and Our Communities Out of Agrochemical-Heavy Conventional Farming By Ilinca Johnson Agriculture could become one of the greatest mitigation forces of...
Triumphing Over Terror: The Fight for Environmental Justice Under a New Regime by Kelly Bell Not even one full day into his second term, President Donald Trump attacked environmental justice....
Green Gentrification: Rochester’s Inner Loop By Katherine Scott Community development is an essential part of creating a more sustainable society. The way that most cities currently operate is not efficient...
image used with public share permission from: ProtectThackerPass.org/resources While We’re Here: Acknowledging Harm in Federal Green Initiatives By Ariana Richmond On day one in office, the new administration canceled climate...
We Paved Paradise to Put Up with Parking Lots Angie Kaufman At first glance, the American parking lot may seem, well, boring; perhaps it’s helpful and convenient at best, benign...
New Jersey’s EJ Law Is Passed, and It Still Might Not Be Enough by Isabella Marie Nangano In 2020, the New Jersey State Legislature enacted the Environmental Justice Law,...
Bridging the Gap: Ensuring a Just Transition for Rural Communities in the Clean Energy Revolution by Olivia Moulton As we begin transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy, we must...
CAFOs: Harming People Now, Later, and Forever by Aika Mitchell As early as 1997, the National Bar Association had understood CAFOs to be an environmental justice issue. CAFOs directly...
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