“For Latinos, climate concern looms large” GreenLatinos in Politico
By: Shayna Greene & Nancy Yu for Politico Pro Latinos consistently express more concern about climate than African Americans and non-Hispanic whites, even ranking the issue above immigration in the last presidential election. The findings, from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, challenge the idea that climate change is predominantly a priority for white […]
¿Quién está pagando los costos humanos de la contaminación plástica?
Este artículo se publicó originalmente en inglés en Prism. Demasiado a menudo se reduce el tema de la contaminación plástica a prohibiciones de popotes/sorbetes de plástico dirigidas por estudiantes universitaries con portapapeles, chicas VSCO y pulseras hechas con la promesa de salvar tortugas. Evoca imágenes de un fajo de bolsas de plástico o tal vez […]
Land, Latinos, and FLPMA: We Demand Protections for Wilderness Study Areas
Rural Latinos are particularly affected by public land management decisions. As Latinos, from Puerto Rico to Washington state, we share the right to determine what our country’s relationship with the mountains, valleys, and canyons looks like, including access, inclusion and land use based on principles of justice. We know that most Latino voters believe that […]
GreenLatinos Mourns Atlanta Spa Shooting Victims and Condemns Rising Violence Against AAPI Across the Nation
Our nationwide community of Latino/a/x environmental leaders stands united with our Asian American siblings in condemning rising Anti-Asian violence across the U.S. We mourn the loss of the eight people — most of them Asian women — killed last week in Atlanta, targeted because of their culture, their work and the color of their skin, […]
Air pollution in Latinx communities is deadly; Biden can deliver cleaner air with EVs
This post was originally published in Spanish as an OpEd in El Diaro. It is no coincidence that Latinx communities across the United States are more likely to breathe dangerous air. Decades of shortsighted and racist government policies have allowed freeways to bisect our neighborhoods, trucks to line our streets, and polluting industries to transform […]