After a Hard Year for Environmental Justice, Chicago Communities Are Picking Up the Pieces

After a Hard Year for Environmental Justice, Chicago Communities Are Picking Up the Pieces

When the EPA abruptly terminated “Community Change” grants, the impacts rippled across the country. Chicago groups that won and then lost one of those grants are still feeling the impacts.By Amber X. ChenIn her 40 years as an environmental justice organizer, Cheryl Johnson had never seen environmental funding as revolutionary as the Community Change grant.

An inside look at some NC environmental justice projects impacted by Trump administration’s EPA cuts

Democracy Green “What’s in Your Water” campaign in Raleigh, NC. WUNC – When the Trump administration terminated the nearly $2 billion EPA Community Change Grant Program earlier this year, organizations across the nation lost millions of dollars in environmental justice grants. In North Carolina, the birthplace of the environmental justice movement, three organizations have lost more than $41 million in grants combined, due to the termination of …