Early policymakers pushed pollution-trading schemes that would concentrate emissions in our neighborhoods at the fenceline of oil refineries and dirty gas power plants. If a solution doesn’t include EJ communities in governance, ownership, and benefits, it’s not a real solution. This dream is part of how EJ groups are writing climate policy and writing the end of fossil fuels that cause global warming. I have more battle stories to tell, as desperate ideas pop up from dying industries or White supremacy rebranding itself as climate policy. ***I have more battle stories to tell, as desperate ideas pop up from dying industries or White supremacy rebranding itself as climate policy.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 22, 2023 13:52 UTC