COP30: Decarbonizing Mobility: A Path to Public Health and Environmental Justice in the Americas
GreenLatinos in the Amazon: COP30 Read in Spanish Here As world leaders, activists, and indigenous communities gather in Belem, Brazil, for COP30, the urgency to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors will once again take center stage. Much of the attention will focus on the energy and industrial systems that drive the bulk of […]
GreenLatinos, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, and the Climate Justice Alliance Comment Letter on EPA’s Proposed Rollback of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) and Subpart W Requirements for the Oil and Gas Sector
GreenLatinos, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, and the Climate Justice Alliance—together with over 140 Environmental Justice, Tribal, and allied organizations, submitted a joint public comment opposing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to roll back the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) and eliminate Subpart W requirements for the oil and gas sector. The full […]
Acabar con el Programa de Reporte de Gases de Efecto Invernadero es un Ataque a la Salud Pública y a la Justicia Climática
La propuesta de la EPA eliminaría el único programa federal que exige a los grandes contaminadores reportar sus emisiones, ocultando datos vitales para la salud pública y la justicia climática. WASHINGTON – La Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA) anunció la semana pasada una propuesta para eliminar el Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP), un sistema creado […]
Ending Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program is an Attack on Public Health and Climate Justice
EPA proposal would eliminate the only federal program tracking emissions from the nation’s largest polluters, silencing data vital to public health and climate justice. Frontline communities already bear the heaviest burdens of fossil fuel pollution. Latino, Black, and Indigenous neighborhoods are disproportionately located near refineries, petrochemical facilities, and transportation corridors where exposure to greenhouse gases […]
NEPA: Un camino hacia la justicia ambiental para las comunidades latinas
Lee en inglés aquí Imagina que empiezan a construir un gasoducto cerca de tu vecindario. Notas más camiones, olores extraños en el aire y que el asma de tu hijo vuelve a empeorar. Preguntas qué está pasando, pero nadie te da respuestas. Ese sentimiento de ser ignorado es demasiado común en muchas comunidades latinas. Pero […]