Ewire: Environmentalists seek to embrace protests

June 4, 2020
Environmentalists and congressional Democrats are seeking to embrace concerns that are driving protests over police violence and racial inequality, arguing that their efforts to address climate change and other environmental concerns must seek to right the same inequities that are driving the protests. “Seeing massive health inequalities in the black community -- that’s the same mass death we want to fight against with climate change, and we should be showing up for black lives,” Mattias Lehman of the youth-led Sunrise...


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