Authors/Essays

We must view the battle for the design of the new, clean energy system through the same lens we use to view broader struggles for economic and civil rights. As environmental justice advocates have shown, the environmental racism faced in communities like my father's hometown (where I spent many of my childhood summers), Port Arthur, Texas, leads directly to poor health outcomes.

Environmental justice embraces the principle that all people and communities are entitled to equal protection of environmental, health, employment, education, housing, transportation, energy, and civil rights laws.

More than three and an half years after the mass shooting in El Paso, the perpetrator pled guilty in February 2023 to the murder of 23 people who were shopping at a Walmart on the morning of Saturday, August 4. 

As Lyft commits to reaching 100 percent electric vehicles (EV) by the end of 2030, we also recognize the opportunities the emerging EV revolution presents for centering racial, economic, and environmental justice.

Every day we are reminded that climate change is the single greatest threat facing humanity. While some choose to see this as a problem for future generations, the impacts of the climate crisis are already piling up for America's low-income families and people of color.

The insurrectionists who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6th didn’t just defile our democracy – they defiled the very notion of American patriotism. In the days leading up to the attack, right-wing extremists called on “fellow patriots” to gather in Washington.

Rhetoric doesn’t fight wars, but it does start them. The world has witnessed this play out in real-time during the heinous Russian invasion of Ukraine, as Nazism found its way into the narrative. This intellectually dishonest pretext was leveraged to wage an unlawful, inhumane campaign that has evolved into a massive humanitarian crisis with the specter of a nuclear catastrophe in the background.