by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | May 20, 2021 | Environmental Justice, FERC communications, Press Releases
Our very own Montina!!! Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Richard Glick today announced the appointment of Montina Cole to serve as Senior Counsel for Environmental Justice and Equity, effective June 1, 2021. Cole, a seasoned executive and attorney...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | May 14, 2021 | Environmental Justice, Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
It has long been recognized that minority and disadvantaged communities are subject to higher levels of pollution than more affluent non-minority areas. This fact is the basis of the need for Environmental Justice to ensure that the past disparate impacts to these...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 12, 2021 | Environmental Justice
The community of Brown Grove in Hanover County is knitted together by a single ancestor, a freedwoman named Caroline Morris, who helped found the community during the Reconstruction. Now, all these years later, Caroline’s descendants are still battling injustices....
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 6, 2021 | Racial Social Justice
There is an Elephant in the civic living room of Charlottesville Virginia, says Honor-Slave-Block Advocacy Group. This is article is written by Freeman Allan, HSB/Slave Museum Secretary; Author; Researcher; Iconologist; Social Justice Activist This month marks twenty...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 6, 2021 | Environmental Justice
It’s been a busy several years in usually quiet Buckingham County. In Virginia’s rural and mostly Black community of Union Hill, the people who—not so long ago—staved off a massive natural gas pipeline’s polluting compressor station proposed on the same land their...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 28, 2020 | Environmental Justice, Events
Join ARTivism Virginia’s SUN SiNG Collective for their sixth and final concert in this series, which was on June 18. The week’s focus was on environmental justice, the fight to protect Union Hill and the Poor People’s Campaign and featured guest speaker Reverend Dr....