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New York State Environmental Health & Justice Advocates and Bill Sponsors Call on Governor Hochul to Get Deadly Toxics Out of Their Communities

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 8, 2022 Contact: Bobbi Wilding, Clean+Healthy, 518-708-3875, bobbi@cleanhealthyny.org ALBANY, NY — With only a few weeks left for Governor Hochul to sign vital legislation, advocates and bill sponsors gathered, calling on her to sign five

WE ACT is Disappointed with the Fiscal Year 2022-23 New York State Budget

WE ACT is Disappointed with the Fiscal Year 2022-23 New York State Budget New York State Governor Kathy Hochul and the Legislature Fail to Adequately Fund Environmental and Climate Justice Initiatives FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 13, 2022 Contact: Chris

MEMBERS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE LEADERSHIP FORUM URGE U.S. SENATE TO VOTE ‘NO” ON CONFIRMATION OF NANCY BECK AS CHAIR OF THE CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 18, 2020 Contact: Dana Johnson, 773-495-1677, dana@weact.org WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation convened a hearing to consider nominees for key positions at several agencies including the Consumer

Embracing Beauty Inside Out: My Journey to Clean Beauty

As I sat in the beauty salon chair, flinching from the sensation of the heat over my edges, I repeated to myself, “beauty is pain and pain is beauty.” That was the affirmation of an 11-year old girl who believed

WE ACT for Environmental Justice Statement on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Changes to Mercury and Air Toxics Standards

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 20, 2020 CONTACT: Dana Johnson, 773-495-1677, dana@weact.org WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump administration and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, Andrew Wheeler, began finalizing a plan to

WE ACT for Environmental Justice Advised U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to Preserve Existing Mercury and Air Toxics Standards During Public Hearing

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 19, 2019 Contact: Dana Johnson, 202-548-4585, dana@weact.org WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) held a public hearing on its residual risk and technology review of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards

Reflecting on MLK’s Dream of Conquering Materialism by Creating Healthier Communities and Good Jobs

A year before his assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. warned us that “when machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable of