What Biden’s climate justice pledge on leaking oil wells means March 24, 2021

EarthBeat (National Catholic Reporter)

Advocates have long argued for exactly this objective: fossil fuel legacy cleanup combined with equity. “This happened as a result of the environmental justice movement doing work for years,” says Martha Argüello, executive director of Physicians for Social Responsibility in Los Angeles. “There are so many jobs in the restoration of the harm that has been done.”

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