{"id":8346,"date":"2024-02-29T08:49:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T13:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staindy.org\/church\/?p=8346"},"modified":"2024-09-26T17:23:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T21:23:52","slug":"environmental-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.staindy.org\/church\/environmental-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Environmental Racism<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The EPA defines environmental justice as \u201cthe fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people \u2026 with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies\u201d.\u00a0 Catholic Climate Covenant adds: \u201cIt will be achieved when everyone enjoys the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards and equal access to the decision-making process to have a healthy environment in which to live, learn, and work.\u201d\u00a0 Environmental racism refers to the disproportionate and overwhelming impacts of environmental degradation on communities of color.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about this topic at the following links:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncronline.org\/blogs\/eco-catholic\/laudato-si-putting-faith-frontline-climate-justice-fight\">https:\/\/www.ncronline.org\/blogs\/eco-catholic\/laudato-si-putting-faith-frontline-climate-justice-fight<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/amanpour-and-company\/video\/robert-bullard-how-environmental-racism-shapes-the-us\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/amanpour-and-company\/video\/robert-bullard-how-environmental-racism-shapes-the-us<\/a>\/ Video (17 minutes) of Robert Bullard (known as the father of environmental justice) describing environmental racism in general and looking at issues in Houston, specifically.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicclimatecovenant.org\/resources\/gods-creation-needs-you-a\/%20\">https:\/\/catholicclimatecovenant.org\/resources\/gods-creation-needs-you-a\/<\/a> \u201cGod\u2019s Creation Needs You\u201d Video series features several videos addressing environmental justice<\/p>\n<p>Video #5: \u201dInspired by Faith to Protect Their Community\u201d focuses on the environmental and health issues impacting communities in \u201cCancer Alley\u201d Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>Video #6:\u00a0 \u201cFaith-Driven Environmental Justice\u201d shows how Catholic Social Teaching calls the Diocese of Stockton, California to confront the environmental challenges harming poor and vulnerable communities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental Racism The EPA defines environmental justice as \u201cthe fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people \u2026 with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies\u201d.\u00a0 Catholic Climate Covenant adds: \u201cIt will be achieved when everyone enjoys the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards and equal  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staindy.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staindy.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staindy.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staindy.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staindy.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.staindy.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8347,"href":"https:\/\/www.staindy.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8346\/revisions\/8347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.staindy.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staindy.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.staindy.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}