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Today, the Biden administration and Joint Office have taken a significant step in confronting this injustice with the release the fact sheet, Biden-Harris Administration Sets First-Ever National Goal of Zero-Emissions Freight Sector, Announces Nearly $1.5 Billion to Support Transition to Zero-Emission Heavy-duty Vehicles.
Unfortunately, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new Phase 3 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Rule on heavy-duty trucks fails to set a clear pathway to 100% zero-emissions for heavy-duty trucks and ensure emissions reduction for frontline and fenceline communities which are majority Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), Asian and from working class and low-income communities.
For too long, frontline and fenceline communities have disproportionately suffered from the public health and environmental impacts caused by the freight transportation system. Planning the critical infrastructure to accelerate the transition to zero-emission trucks is an important step in achieving a zero-pollution freight industry, as requested in MFN’s letter in January 2024. MFN supports the Biden administration’s National Zero-Emissions Freight Corridor Strategy.
In March 2023, a cohort of 37 MFN members convened in Washington, D.C. to make our network’s demands loud and clear to policymakers. We brought frontline and fenceline community power straight to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to demand zero emissions in freight!
Activistas comunitarios, residentes, líderes de organizaciones de fe, doctores y educadores, manifestándose en el edificio administrativo del Puerto de San Diego en diciembre de 2022. – Foto...
Community activists, residents, faith leaders, doctors, and educators rallying at the Port of San Diego’s Administrative Building, December 2022. – Photo provided by EHC.After a tireless fight, the...
For many families, reducing their carbon footprint and having more control over their energy costs is simply not attainable. Why? Because of how unaffordable and inaccessible it is to install panels...
In October 2022, a delegation of Moving Forward Network (MFN) members attended the All-In conference. At this convening, the MFN Research Workgroup, led by Dr. P. Qasimah Boston and Dr. Bruce...
By Aisha Balogun Last year, I decided to pursue a master of urban planning in hopes of gaining expertise in a subject that matters to me. After three months as an Environmental Justice Fellow with...
Photo Credit: Beto Lugo MartinezCleanAirNow Co-Executive Directors, Atenas Mena and Beto Lugo Martinez, grew up in frontline communities where air pollution was the norm. Their lived experiences...
The facts are clear – frontline communities of color breathe more hazardous air nationwide than any other community. And now since the pandemic, Amazon has been aggressively expanding its warehouse...
One in four kids in Newark, New Jersey, have asthma. This is the harsh reality that Kim Gaddy, founder of MFN member South Ward Environmental Alliance (SWEA), and so many others endure every single...
Over ten years ago, I had the privilege and joy to join forces with so many community leaders in the co-creation of the Moving Forward Network (MFN). For the last eight years, it’s been an honor...
Recently, two of President Biden’s top environmental justice advisers have left their positions, leaving people to wonder who and how the Administration will implement their environmental justice...
Grassroots organizations and frontline activists are the reasons we’ve seen a positive change in regard to environmental justice over the past few decades. Why? Because environmental racism impacts...
Over the last 20 years, we’ve seen the environmental justice movement grow across the United States. The amount of grassroots organizing and frontline actions have driven environmental justice and...
Moving Forward Network member Comite Civico Del Valle is being honored with a Clean Air Heroes award today by the South Coast Air Quality Management District for their ground-breaking IVAN...
To my knowledge, no organization in the U.S. has achieved as much using citizen science as the Brawley, California community and environmental justice group Comité Cívico Del Valle. Comité Cívico,...
Received on Friday from the Union of Concerned Scientists: Since last week, we at the Union of Concerned Scientists have been working to provide reliable, science-based information about storm...
Photo Source:MIT Is your city allowing developers to build schools, housing, and day care centers near busy highways? Because of the health risks of living close to a highway can be high, this...
Photo: CHRIS JORDAN-BLOCH / EARTHJUSTICE Many of the effects of diesel exhaust and other traffic-related air pollution are known and widely accepted - including cancer, cardiovascular...
A study of over 60 million American seniors recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that long-term exposure to particulate matter air pollution raises the risk of premature...
Photo: Edited image from the Village Voice The Coalition for Healthy Ports NY NJ, which includes Moving Forward Network members Clean Water Action and the Ironbound Community...
As the Moving Forward Network members that do air pollution monitoring know from on-the-ground experience, EPA regulatory air monitors may show an area to have low levels of particulate matter from...
Photo: Courtesy EYCEJ: Mark! Lopez, Dr. Robert Bullard, Taylor Thomas, and Zully Juarez mark! Lopez, executive director of MFN member East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice (EYCEJ) was...