A recent Globe article covered the fight to protect Black homeowners in Mattapan, near Blue Hill Avenue, who have been accessing legal support through ACE’s EJAN program.
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A recent Globe article covered the State House efforts to walk back earlier promises around environmental justice, including a quote from Dwaign Tyndal from ACE.
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A recent article has an in-depth analysis of ACE’s recent report on RGGI and local impacts on minority and low-income communities.
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A recent Globe article covered the Franklin Park stadium and ACE’s legal efforts, through our Environmental Justice Assistance Network, to empower residents to fight its construction.
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For Tristan Thomas, director of policy and law at the Roxbury-based nonprofit Alternatives for Community and Environment, which does environmental justice advocacy, the report card’s environmental justice section failed to inspire confidence.
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“We need to protect ratepayers and community members,” said Tristan Thomas of Alternatives for Community and Environment. Thomas claims hyperscale centers come with a pattern seen nationwide: “When these hyperscale data centers move in, utility bills go up.”
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THERE IS A clear threat to our public transit system here in Boston: the systematic clawing back of federal funding and the withdrawal of environmental justice and equity guidelines that seriously imperil how residents move.
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“You have these things that people don’t want in their neighborhoods but it’s essential — they somehow get into our neighborhoods. That’s what environmental racism is,” said Dwaign Tyndal.
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As data centers continue to pop up in Black and brown communities, environmental groups are stepping in to provide a framework on how they should operate.
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Tristan Thomas, director of policy for the nonprofit Alternatives for Community and Environment, said the proposed regulations should be rejected since they “lack basic safeguards for our environment, public health and our economy.”
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