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The Tea on Toxic Beauty: Disproportionate Impacts of Toxic Chemicals in Beauty Products on Women of Color
In a world where beauty standards often dictate self-worth, it’s time to shed light on the hidden dangers lurking in personal care products, particularly for women of color.
Transforming Lives: Advocating for Environmental Justice in NJ Prisons
In New Jersey, prison populations bear a unique burden from pollution, often lacking the agency to change their environments.
Water as a Human Right
The Human Right to Water, passed by the legislature in 2012 and signed by Governor Brown, was a great policy idea with almost no teeth. Community members and advocates worked for years to gain recognition for water as a human right, with our first bill, AB 1242 (Ruskin, 2009) vetoed by then-Governor Schwarzenegger and its successor, AB 685 (Eng, 2012) taking the full 2-year session to pass. The legislation was short and to the point:
It is hereby declared to be the established policy of the state that every human being has the right to safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water adequate for
Skip the Stuff in New Jersey
Restaurants should only provide single-use cutlery and condiments if requested by customers and should use reusables for dine-in.
Chemical Recycling Proposed in Howard County
In the heart of Howard County, Maryland, the W.R. Grace facility in Columbia has proposed an expansion to incorporate plastic “chemical recycling” into its operations. While the term “chemical recycling” may sound environmentally friendly, this process is essentially a form of trash incineration.