COVID-19 Vaccines and Variants Training
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COVID-19 Vaccines and Variants Training
Tuesday, November 9th @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm CT on Zoom
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COVID-19 Community Awareness Trainings
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COVID-19 Community Awareness Training
Tuesday, October 19th @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm CT on Zoom
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Repeated Tuesday, October 26th @ 6:00 pm – 7″00 pm CT on Zoom
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Climate Change’s Uneven Impact on Communities of Color Compounded by Uneven Flow of Aid
PBS News Hour – Hurricane Ida survivors are still facing a difficult road ahead, nearly six weeks after it battered Louisiana as a Category 4 storm. And in Lake Charles, Louisiana, thousands are still waiting for relief from a string of natural disasters that began more than a year ago. Some say it shows climate change’s disproportionate toll on low-income communities. Read more
What No One is Talking About in the Wake of Hurricanes and Oil Spills
Washington (CNN) Often, the damage that extreme weather or an environmental disaster inflicts on communities works as a one-two punch. The first punch: the actual event — an oil spill, a hurricane, a winter storm, the lethal heat that scorched parts of the US as recently as a couple weeks ago. The second punch: the trauma that can persist long after the event is no more.
It’s this second punch that people tend to overlook or ignore. “I don’t think that there’s a misunderstanding that all communities are hit the same,” Robert Bullard, a distinguished professor of urban planning and environmental policy at Texas Southern University, told CNN, referring to the fact that communities of color are disproportionately hurt by extreme weather. “But I do think that when the dust clears, not enough attention is given to the post-disaster trauma that exists after the headlines are gone.”
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Energy & Justice in New Orleans: Power to People!
Today, the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ) and partner organizations in the Energy Future New Orleans coalition filed a motion for the City Council to hold Entergy accountable by ordering
1. a full investigation of Entergy’s massive power outage that contributed to the deaths of 12 New Orleans residents;
2. an independent management audit of Entergy companies;
3. a thorough examination of the costs Entergy bills New Orleans customers for the new gas plant sited near Black and Vietnamese American residents in New Orleans East that did not work on its own, as Entergy claimed to win Council approval for it.
DSCEJ’s commitment to environmental justice led us to oppose the gas plant based on our research and analysis of the data and facts showing Entergy did none of the following: implement best practices on site selection criteria to protect communities from the gas plant pollution, evaluate alternative energy options ordered by the City Council, and provide a credible reason for the gas plant. We have since worked on alternative energy options by supporting a local policy for community solar projects, coordinating the Climate Action Equity Project, and advocating for a renewable portfolio standard.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, what worked was rooftop solar with battery storage. What did not work was dirty energy.
Join DSCEJ in calling on the City Council to hold Entergy accountable and build an energy system that works for everyone. Let’s expand solar energy with battery storage at places that serve the public and in neighborhoods that are most vulnerable to climate change, where Entergy bills hit residents the hardest with one of the highest energy cost burdens in the nation.
Power to the people without delay!
Download Motion for City Council to hold Entergy accountable