In October 2022, a delegation of Moving Forward Network (MFN) members attended the All-In conference. At this convening, the MFN Research Workgroup, led by Dr. P. Qasimah Boston and Dr. Bruce...
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A Summer with MFN: Expanding Expertise
By: Aisha Balogun Last year, I decided to pursue a master of urban planning in hopes of gaining expertise in a subject that matters to me. After three months as an Environmental Justice Fellow with...
CleanAirNow’s Summer of Action for EJ in Kansas City
Photo Credit: Beto Lugo MartinezCleanAirNow Co-Executive Directors, Atenas Mena and Beto Lugo Martinez, grew up in frontline communities where air pollution was the norm. Their lived experiences...
How Amazon’s Facilities Disproportionately Harm Frontline Communities of Color
The facts are clear – frontline communities of color breathe more hazardous air nationwide than any other community. And now since the pandemic, Amazon has been aggressively expanding its warehouse...
South Ward Environmental Alliance’s Fight for Zero Emissions in Newark
One in four kids in Newark, New Jersey, have asthma. This is the harsh reality that Kim Gaddy, founder of MFN member South Ward Environmental Alliance (SWEA), and so many others endure every single...
A note from Angelo Logan, our Campaign and Policy Director
Over ten years ago, I had the privilege and joy to join forces with so many community leaders in the co-creation of the Moving Forward Network (MFN). For the last eight years, it’s been an honor...
MFN Urges Activists to Demand an Environmental Justice Freight System Agenda
Recently, two of President Biden’s top environmental justice advisers have left their positions, leaving people to wonder who and how the Administration will implement their environmental justice...
How Southern California’s New Ruling Helps Protect Frontline and Fenceline Communities
Grassroots organizations and frontline activists are the reasons we’ve seen a positive change in regard to environmental justice over the past few decades. Why? Because environmental racism impacts...
Southern California Warehouse Pollution Hits Close to Home for MFN Members
Over the last 20 years, we’ve seen the environmental justice movement grow across the United States. The amount of grassroots organizing and frontline actions have driven environmental justice and...
Comite Civico Del Valle Honored as a Clean Air Hero
Moving Forward Network member Comite Civico Del Valle is being honored with a Clean Air Heroes award today by the South Coast Air Quality Management District for their ground-breaking IVAN...
Leonardo DiCaprio Joins Forces with Comité Cívico Del Valle to Expand Salton Sea Air Quality Monitoring
To my knowledge, no organization in the U.S. has achieved as much using citizen science as the Brawley, California community and environmental justice group Comité Cívico Del Valle. Comité Cívico,...
Hurricane Harvey: Union of Concerned Scientists Partners on the Ground with T.EJ.A.S.
Received on Friday from the Union of Concerned Scientists: Since last week, we at the Union of Concerned Scientists have been working to provide reliable, science-based information about storm...
Is Your City Allowing Homes and Schools Dangerously Close to Highways?
Photo Source:MIT Is your city allowing developers to build schools, housing, and day care centers near busy highways? Because of the health risks of living close to a highway can be high, this...
Port of Oakland Air Pollution Violates the Civil Rights of the Community: Feds to Investigate
Photo: CHRIS JORDAN-BLOCH / EARTHJUSTICE Many of the effects of diesel exhaust and other traffic-related air pollution are known and widely accepted - including cancer, cardiovascular...
Particulate Matter Air Pollution Kills Many Elderly People in the U.S., Even at Levels the EPA Considers ‘Safe’
A study of over 60 million American seniors recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that long-term exposure to particulate matter air pollution raises the risk of premature...
Coalition for Healthy Ports Shows Dirty Diesel Trucks Are Killing Residents
Photo: Edited image from the Village Voice The Coalition for Healthy Ports NY NJ, which includes Moving Forward Network members Clean Water Action and the Ironbound Community...
West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project Research Reveals Dangerous Pollution Hotspots
As the Moving Forward Network members that do air pollution monitoring know from on-the-ground experience, EPA regulatory air monitors may show an area to have low levels of particulate matter from...
mark! Lopez of EYCEJ Wins Goldman Environmental Prize!
Photo: Courtesy EYCEJ: Mark! Lopez, Dr. Robert Bullard, Taylor Thomas, and Zully Juarez mark! Lopez, executive director of MFN member East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice (EYCEJ) was...
EPA to Conduct Goods Movement Pilot Project with Harambee House
Since its inception, the Moving Forward Network (MFN) has worked to advance environmental justice as a priority within the EPA and other agencies. Thanks to the hard work of the network and its...
Research Shows Traffic-Related Air Pollution May Lead to Dementia in Older Women
Image: USC School of Gerontology Scientists at the University of Southern California published research yesterday that shows that Particulate Matter air pollution from power plants and vehicles may...
Scientists Say Exercising in Heavy Air Pollution Is Bad for Your Heart
A European study of 16,000 people found that air pollution impairs the function of blood vessels in the lungs, and that exercise could cause lung damage and heart failure. The lead scientist in the...
Fostering Environmental Literacy in Kansas City
Share Leticia DeCaigny's conversation with Richard Mabion and support the #ZeroEmissionsNow campaign. Richard Mabion is president of the Kansas City, Kansas branch of the NAACP and a board member of...
Protecting Kids from Traffic and Polluted Air
Share Carolina Martinez' conversation with Yesenia Ceballos and support the #ZeroEmissionsNow campaign. Yesenia Ceballos had long been concerned about her children’s safety negotiating the traffic...
Nikola Announces “The End of Diesel Engines”
On December 1, Utah start-up Nikola Motor Company unveiled a fully operational truck they say spells the end of diesel-powered trucking - the Nikola One - a zero-emissions Class 8 semi-truck with...
Toxic Dust, Love and Asthma: A Mother’s Story in the Imperial Valley
Share Onyx and Humberto's conversation and support the #ZeroEmissionsNow campaign. Onyx Bazulto lives in the Imperial Valley in Southern California, where air quality is poor and one in five...