#ShilohFlood #ALDOT #JUSTICE40 #IRA #BIL #infrastructure #environmentaljustice #environmentalracism #transportationequity #highwayrobbery #civilrights
Following up on the #Justice40, the #CEJST data provided the specific data markers that identified census tracts as disadvantaged. In the below post, I looked at West Pullman - the home to Pullman Palace Car Company.
#grantwriting #socialjustice #chicago
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In Jan., one of the most ambitious efforts to embed #environmentaljustice in federal policy was ended. The #Justice40 Initiative distributed more than $600B across 500 programs in 19 federal agencies. Here's how to find the local impacts. 🧪🌎
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#environment
“The values of Justice40 were fairness, equity, and respect—the heart of environmental justice,” said Rep. Sykes.
Even with its rollback, these values endure. Justice isn't a moment. It's a commitment.
#Justice40 #EnvironmentalJustice #ProtectPublicLand #ProtectOurOcean
With Justice40 being one of our core goals, we remain enraged by its rollback and the inefficiencies it revealed.
Rep. Sykes put it plainly:
“Funding is often spread like peanut butter. But is this method efficient?”
#Justice40 #EnvironmentalJustice #BuildPower
The #Justice40 Initiative establishes a goal that 40% of the benefits of climate and clean energy investments flow to disadvantaged communities, which for too long, have faced disinvestment and underinvestment.
Investment categories covered by J40 include...
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"Today, the Committee held a hearing on the #Justice40 Initiative, a Biden admin environmental justice program that Trump eliminated on Jan 20. Committee Republicans remain focused on programs that don't exist anymore instead of the Trump-induced collapse of American science."
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The latest edition of Power & Progress, our new biweekly newsletter, about the politics of the renewable energy transition, explains the disproportionate burden that Black and brown communities will bear amid federal climate and environmental policy rollbacks. #Justice40
Check out the full episode on:
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#TheGreenAgenda #YoungGiftedGreen #Justice40 #EnvironmentalJustice #LeadFreeUSA
The Frederick Cooler Neighborhoods Project aims to increase the county’s tree canopy by 10% compared to 2021 - 40% within the City of Frederick - with special focus on six #Justice40 neighborhoods.
Truly horrible. Trump is trying to rub out everything Biden ever did.
Now I can hashtag all his censored language.
#climatechange #greenhousegasemissions #racialequity #genderidentity #diversity #equity #inclusion #environmentaljustice #Justice40
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For next week's Power + Progress newsletter, we're encouraging local coverage of the fate of Biden administration's #Justice40 programs. Who should local reporters follow to get updates on the ongoing funding freeze at the EPA and the DOE? Who's on the ground reporting on disrupted programs?
📢 Keeping Justice40 Alive in 2025
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#TheGreenAgenda #Justice40 #EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateAction #LiveEvent
Ok #environmentalprofessionals, is the #CEJST websitebl or the #USClimateResilenceToolkit working for anyone else? I haven't been able to access CEJST since 1/22 😬
#justice40 #environmentaljustice
Rough week man. All of the #Justice40 tools and data have been removed from fed sites. S/O to the Environmental Policy Innovation Center (EPIC) for archiving the data.
Trump kicks off potentially messy fight over Biden’s #infrastructure money - @POLITICO www.politico.com/news/2025/01... @BullardCenter @DrBobBullard #environmentaljustice #climatejustice #BIL #IRA #JUSTICE40
6/ #EnvironmentalJustice - The #Justice40 Initiative delivers 40% of federal climate and #CleanEnergy investment benefits to disadvantaged communities, supported by the #EnvironmentalJustice Interagency Council.
#Biden's tenure is historic from 235 judges (most since ‘80s) to commuting 2500 sentences for nonviolent drug offenses. He signed the #EmmettTillAct, passed the #RespectForMarriageAct, launched #Justice40, commuted #DeathRow sentences, and pardoned #LGBTQ+ veterans. See some 👀 stats below 🧵👇
1⃣ Dismantling or sidelining programs like #Justice40 to provide clean energy, and climate resilience toward disadvantaged areas or @EPA grants to improve air quality, water safety, and community health, replaced by negationist policy proposals such as those in Project 2025
Agree these could be complementary. As one example, I think the principle of #Justice40 might manage the polycentric tension better if the broader scale was municipal instead of census tract, and focused more on restorative/unverinvestment instead of aggregated/biased env & other burden metrics
I think there are still good reasons to use the #Justice40 initiative (e.g., restorative justice and redressing chronic underinvestment at community scales).
These aren't contradictory. Justice40 could complement the use of a "risk burden" metric.
Lots of big questions for the energy transition under Trump, but one of ours was: What about #Justice40?
Biden's policy to prioritize #environmentaljustice for federal climate funds was a big shift.
Now, #EJ advocates are worried they'll lose $ and momentum.
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/01/s...
With threats to vital federal #climate investments & #equity standards like #Justice40, regional/state programs like #RGGI may be more critical than ever. We @acadiacenter.bsky.social issued a new report on RGGI investments, including new equity data (30% in '22).
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a very small plum tree- only a few branches, it is one year old and lanky.
a large plum tree- the same tree, 5 years later. it is about 8 feet tall and highly branched with a thick trunk.
it's tough because the lot is surrounded by asphalt, concrete, strip mall areas- roads. there's a superfund site in my tract too. I keep looking to see if #justice40 has any habitat-restoring or growing native plant funding I can tap into, but it's frustrating to find it as just a regular person.
Justice40 is an #environmentaljustice breakthrough, writes Yessenia Funes. But it’s also a program with weaknesses, like how it factors in race or keeps track of impacts. What is #Justice40 and what is its future?#SEJournalVoicesofEnvironmentalJustice
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One side wants to revert back to a highway focus of transportation and not fund sidewalks, bike lanes or buses and the other wants to fund all of those things and continue the #Justice40 work they are already doing...
🎙️ Podcast alert: Ten Across founder Duke Reiter talks with Chitra Kumar, Managing Director of UCS’s Climate & Energy program, about renewed vigor for #EnvironmentalJustice across federal agencies and the impact of the #Justice40 Initiative.
We need more of this! ⇒ Biden marks Earth Day with $7bn ‘solar for all’ investment amid week of climate action www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/22/bide... #Justice40 #EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateChange #EarthDay
Get that 💰CT cities and towns! Would love to see way more #justice40 identified communities apply this cycle. Hey @ctbilt friends- are you running info sessions or having @ExMayorMark reach out to high traffic violence towns? https://twitter.com/KRDemCT/status/1749511904475726039