Water
This federal law, passed in 1972, was designed to regulate pollution in U.S. waterways.
What is the Clean Water Act?
This term refers to the fair distribution of energy resources and the social impacts of energy production and consumption.
What is energy justice?
Land justice movements aim to restore land access and rights, particularly for these communities dispossessed through colonization.
Who are Indigenous peoples and Black farmers?
This phrase describes the movement for transitioning workers from fossil fuel jobs to sustainable, well-paying green jobs.
What is a Just Transition?
This economic system prioritizes profit over people and is a root cause of climate injustice.
What is capitalism?
Due to rising sea levels and coastal erosion, this U.S. state has the first community receiving federal funds to relocate due to climate change.
What is Louisiana?
The Gulf South and Appalachia have long been extraction sites for this fossil fuel, heavily polluting both regions.
What is coal?
This term refers to the unjust environmental burdens placed on marginalized communities, often near toxic industries.
What is environmental racism?
Many workers in the renewable energy sector still face low wages and unsafe conditions due to this practice.
What is labor exploitation?
These frontline communities, often impacted first and worst by climate disasters, are referred to as this.
What are sacrifice zones?
This term describes the intentional or systemic denial of clean and affordable water access, disproportionately affecting marginalized communities.
What is water apartheid?
The world’s largest producers of solar energy include China, the U.S., and this country known for its desert solar farms.
What is India?
This farming practice restores soil health, reduces emissions, and is a key tool in fighting climate change.
What is regenerative agriculture?
This federal agency is responsible for workplace safety, yet has been criticized for failing to protect workers in extreme heat.
What is OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)?
Many climate justice advocates argue that instead of carbon trading or offsetting, governments should pursue this financial remedy for climate harms.
What are climate reparations?
In 2014, residents of this U.S. city were exposed to lead-contaminated water due to government negligence.
What is Flint, Michigan?
This method of extracting natural gas by injecting liquid into the earth has caused earthquakes and water contamination.
What is fracking?
This global movement, led by peasant farmers, fights for land and food sovereignty and against corporate agribusiness.
What is La Via Campesina?
Farmworkers, disproportionately from this community, are on the frontlines of climate change yet lack labor protections.
Who are Latinx and Indigenous migrant workers?
The principle that wealthier nations should pay for their historical contributions to climate change is called this.
What is the polluter pays principle?
The struggle for water sovereignty has been at the heart of this Indigenous-led movement opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline.
What is #NoDAPL or the Standing Rock movement?
The term “energy democracy” refers to communities reclaiming control of energy systems. Name one way this can be achieved.
What is community-owned solar, public utilities, or cooperative energy grids?
In 1865, formerly enslaved Black Americans were promised this amount of land, which was never fully granted.
What is 40 acres and a mule?
This international concept argues that climate solutions must prioritize workers' rights and social protections.
What is climate justice unionism?
This alternative economic model focuses on cooperative ownership, community wealth-building, and sustainability.
What is a solidarity economy?