Northside leaders demand $10M in anti-displacement funds as the Blue Line Extension threatens homes, businesses, and community stability.
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The Big Beautiful Bill ‘greenlights pollution’
Signed on July 4, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act eliminates the EPA’s Environmental and Climate Justice Program, slashes grant funding, and rolls back air and water protections. Lawsuits are underway, but the future of climate justice remains uncertain.
Posted inOpinion
Wildfires endanger Minnesota’s peatlandsÂ
As wildfires sweep Minnesota, peatlands — which store 40% of the state’s terrestrial carbon — are burning away. LeeAnn Geshick urges immediate action.
Posted inPolitics
Climate Justice Isn’t Dead
Former White House official Ryan Hathaway believes the Trump Administration’s efforts to kill environmental protections will fail, as environmental justice is a guiding principle for the federal government and it is not possible to wipe out environmental justice.
Posted inEvents
Rooted and resilient: An environmental justice celebration
Join us at 825 Arts on April 2, 2025 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM for a historic gathering of three generations of Black environmental justice leadership to explore how collective wisdom, advocacy, and action can guide the ReConnect Rondo initiative and turn historical harm into a foundation for a thriving, sustainable community.
Posted inPolitics
Trump Outlines America First Agenda: What It Means for Black Americans
Donald Trump’s America First agenda, which includes measures to end DEI, has raised concerns among citizens and activists about the impact on marginalized communities, particularly Black Americans.
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Smith Foundry under fire for ‘environmental racism’
Activists rally to close Smith Foundry in Minneapolis’s Phillips neighborhood
Posted inGo Green
Wanted: Younger workforce ready to learn about climate jobs
‘We want to get people into these service programs, to get them employed, working in areas that they’re passionate about.’
Posted inLocal & State, News
Activists want to close the downtown HERC trash-burner
‘What’s big to us is the amount of waste that is generated. That’s culturally part of the capitalist system we live in.’
Posted inGo Green
Having our say against carbon pollution
Unless we act fast and significantly, we are the allegorical frog in slowly warming water, except we are turning up the heat on ourselves.
Posted inGo Green
Bold leadership and historic investment are launching climate renewal
‘The climate crisis impacts everybody, but it does not impact all communities equally.’
Posted inOpinion
New fire, familiar injustice
We need to acknowledge that our continued reliance on fossil fuels is subsidized by the physical and mental health of other Americans.
Posted inLocal & State, News
City may sell Roof Depot site to activists after all
The City of Minneapolis recently indicated it may sell land earmarked for a water facilities expansion in the East Phillips neighborhood to local activists.
Posted inGo Green, Local & State, National, News
Chisolm Legacy Project provides climate justice resources for Black communities
‘We can’t have climate justice. We can’t have racial justice. We can’t have gender justice, in the context of an extractive economy that is doing what it was designed to do, which is enclose wealth and power in the hands of a very few.’
Posted inGo Green, National, News
Biden signs executive order establishing office of environmental justice
‘These communities with environmental justice concerns face even greater burdens due to climate change.’
Posted inGo Green
MN could include environmental justice in deciding industrial project
‘They’re running away from some of the pollution, some of the additional barriers they face over there.’
Posted inLocal & State, News
Roof Depot demolition averted—for now
‘The City has never really responded, never been interested in the community’s vision.’
Posted inLocal & State, News
Roof Depot demolition controversy heats up
The City of Minneapolis is close to demolishing an abandoned warehouse in the East Phillips neighborhood against the wishes of environmental justice advocates.
Posted inGo Green, Local & State, News
Disadvantaged business corridors in MN get solar boost
The Lake Street Council in Minneapolis and two other groups have been offered to join the Solar Energy Innovation Network, which is under the umbrella of the U.S. Energy Department.
Posted inGo Green, Local & State, News
Mpls advances controversial Roof Depot demolition
‘There’s a long history of toxic substances being in this community. We have an opportunity to change that.’