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Dr. Benjamin Chavis<\/a> is known throughout the world as a leading civil and human rights activist, becoming famous as a member of the Wilmington 10<\/a>, nine Black men and one white woman who were wrongfully convicted of arson and conspiracy in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1971 during racially tense times but was later exonerated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chavis went on to serve as a leader of the NAACP, and presently is the president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), the trade organization for Black newspapers. Chavis is also known for his early advocacy of environmental justice in the 1980s, writing opinion columns and making speeches about communities of color needing to have clean air and water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chavis published a landmark national study in 1986: \u201cToxic Waste and Race in the United States of America\u201d<\/a> that reveals the connection between race and the location of toxic waste sites throughout the nation. As a result of his work, he is known by some as the \u201cGodfather of the postmodern environmental justice movement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Chavis is not happy with the recent moves by the Trump administration to gut federal environmental justice programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe denial of the current administration of environmental racism and climate injustice in communities of color is going to cause greater suffering, greater harm and greater mortality,\u201d Chavis, 77, told The Informer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chavis made his comments as the nation seeks to recognize Earth Day <\/a>on April 22, an annual event to show support for environmental protection policies and practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chavis said there is clear evidence that environmental racism has severely impacted people of color in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCovid revealed that people have pre-existing health conditions. We now know that those pre-existing conditions are the result of people being exposed to harmful environments,\u201d he said. \u201cThe nation has not yet healed from Covid, and many people are still exposed to toxins, and that is tragic to millions of Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fighting for Environmental Justice Against Trumpism<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

During the Biden administration, Michael S. Regan<\/a> served as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regan, with the support of the Biden White House, prioritized environmental justice initiatives aimed at African American and Latino communities impacted by pollution and climate change and shepherded the use of Title IX of the Civil Rights Act to fight environmental bias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a Dec. 31 resignation letter to EPA employees, Regan said the agency took environmental justice and \u201cplaced it at the center of our decision-making.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when Donald Trump assumed the presidency in January, he made it clear that pro-environmental justice programs were to be shelved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new EPA chief, Lee Zeldin, labeled Biden\u2019s environmental justice initiatives as \u201cscams\u201d according to an exclusive interview with the New York Post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James McHenry, the then-acting U.S. attorney general, issued a memo to employees of the Department of Justice on Feb. 5, stating the three Biden administration environmental justice executive orders were rescinded as of Feb. 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The anti-environmental justice developments by the administration created a strong backlash from environmental advocates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Feb. 6, Ben Jealous,<\/a> executive director of the Sierra Club<\/a> and former executive director of NNPA and NAACP<\/a>, criticized the Trump administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDonald Trump is hellbent on dismantling and disregarding so much of what helps keep our families and our communities safe,\u201d Jealous, 52, said. \u201cProtecting our air and water and holding deadly polluters accountable helps American families. By shuttering these offices, Donald Trump has decided that we do not deserve clean air or water, and our right to a livable and safe planet comes second to further enriching his fossil fuel friends and donors. Trump has been on the job for less than a month, but every single day he is making our communities less safe. The American people deserve better than this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maria Lopez-Nunez<\/a> is an activist who served on Biden\u2019s White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. She called the Trump administration\u2019s gutting of environmental justice programs \u201calarming.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[The Trump administration is] not just saying we\u2019re eliminating the programs. It\u2019s saying: \u2018We don\u2019t give a damn about the environment at all, or people\u2019s lives or the health impacts across the country,\u2019\u201d Lopez-Nunez said in a March Earth Justice<\/a> article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the policies of the administration, Chavis is upbeat about the opposition to it that is increasing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am optimistic about the growing grassroots movement that is multi-racial, multi-ethnic and multi-lingual that will not be deterred by the backwardness of the current EPA that protects polluters and not the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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