{"id":407454,"date":"2021-04-10T14:28:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T18:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=407454"},"modified":"2021-04-10T14:28:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T18:28:16","slug":"members-of-bidens-environmental-justice-advisory-council-have-history-of-radicalism-claiming-fossil-fuels-are-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/members-of-bidens-environmental-justice-advisory-council-have-history-of-radicalism-claiming-fossil-fuels-are-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Members Of Biden\u2019s \u2018Environmental Justice\u2019 Advisory Council Have History Of Radicalism, Claiming Fossil Fuels Are Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmembers-of-bidens-environmental-justice-advisory-council-have-history-of-radicalism-claiming-fossil-fuels-are-racist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=407454&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1286.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>At the end of last month, the Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/03\/29\/white-house-announces-environmental-justice-advisory-council-members\/\">announced<\/a> the members of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, which would \u201cprovide advice and recommendations to the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council on how to address current and historic environmental injustices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-six people were named to the council, but at least four of them have made radical statements connecting fossil fuels to racism.<\/p>\n<p>Susana Almanza, for example, is the director of People Organized in Defense of Earth and Her Resources (PODER), an environmental justice organization based in Austin, Texas. Hilltop Views, the student news website of St. Edward\u2019s University, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hilltopviewsonline.com\/19270\/news\/susana-almanza-environmental-justice-activist-struggle-victories-and-advice\/\">profiled<\/a> Almanza, noting that she has a Che Guevara poster in her office and said that her organization is \u201cfighting big monsters; they\u2019re not little ones,\u201d referring to oil companies.<\/p>\n<p>Beverly Wright, executive director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, <a href=\"https:\/\/fluxconsole.com\/files\/item\/211\/106518\/Dr%20Wright%20Statement%20to%20Panel%20Interior%20Public%20Form%20Oil%20and%20Gas%20Program.pdf\">addressed<\/a> a recent Department of Interior public forum on the federal oil and gas program and implored the Department to review the program \u201cwith an analysis of how it perpetuates environmental racism and the racial inequity of climate vulnerability.\u201d She also insisted that \u201cracial discrimination that is central to oil and gas operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/2\/#search\/steve\/FMfcgxwLtGsXCGRdGRjtRjPxksLWtxnM\">interview<\/a> with Vox back in February, Wright linked energy development to slavery and Jim Crow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople often forget the legacies of slavery, of Jim Crow segregation and out of that chain, laws that were deeply entrenched within the social structure of the Southern environment that worsened our quality of life,\u201d Wright told the outlet. \u201cThat legacy resulted in communities that had been inundated with toxic facilities, impacting our health, the value of the homes where people live, causing them to have higher cancer rates, and to eventually be relocated from within the midst of these facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another member of the council, Jade Begay, communications and digital director at the Indigenous Environmental Network, previously called climate change \u201ccultural genocide\u201d in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/defending-indigenous-rights-climate-change-2602221014.html#toggle-gdpr\">article<\/a> for EcoWatch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClimate change isn\u2019t just a scientific issue\u2014it\u2019s an issue of racial inequity, economic inequity and cultural genocide,\u201d she wrote. She also tied climate change to \u201ccolonialism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s essential to note that Indigenous vulnerability and resilience to climate change cannot be detached from the context of colonialism, which created both the economic conditions for climate change and the social conditions that continue to limit the capacity for Indigenous resistance and resilience. Both historically and in the present, climate change itself is thoroughly tied to colonial practices. Greenhouse gas production over the last two centuries hinged on the dispossession of Indigenous lands and resources,\u201d Begay wrote.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/gal-dem.com\/outcome-un-climate-talks-indigenous-peoples\/\">interview<\/a> with Gal-Dem, Begay insisted that \u201cthe most important action needed now is to stop all new fossil fuel development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Tom Cormons <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-ville.com\/Green_Scene_Blog_The_energy_future_in_Virginia\/\">wrote<\/a> for the Green Scene Blog that \u201cfossil fuels\u2026are one of the greatest threats to our children\u2019s future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind, the advisory council was announced at the same time CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/03\/31\/politics\/environmental-protection-agency-trump-appointees\/index.html\">reported<\/a> that the Biden administration was seeking to purge dozens Trump-appointed advisers from two Environmental Protection Agency science panels.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of last month, the Biden administration announced the members of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, which would \u201cprovide advice and recommendations to the Chair of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311968,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1286.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Members Of Biden\u2019s \u2018Environmental Justice\u2019 Advisory Council Have History Of Radicalism, Claiming Fossil Fuels Are Racist","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1286.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Members Of Biden\u2019s \u2018Environmental Justice\u2019 Advisory Council Have History Of Radicalism, Claiming Fossil Fuels Are Racist","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}