An Afro-Indigenous led Environmental & Climate Justice Conservation and Advocacy Organization. Healing the Land and People since 2018.
North Carolina, USA
Joined December 2020
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We are demanding justice for our people. We deserve clean drinking water.
This is our Flint and our people are dying. We have filed a petition to the @EPA, along with several partners, to demand accountability and clean up now!
coastalreview.org/2020/10/nc…
@DemocracyGreen and the National BITPOC-Emerging Contaminants Coalition delivered a petition of over 130 signatures and growing to the NC Environmental Management Commission. Don’t Wait Ban the Eight!
See it here: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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Everyone knows fish live in #water, right?
Well, apparently everyone but Commissioner Michael Ellison, Vice-Chair of the NC EMC Water Quality Committee.
Tell EMC “Don’t Wait, Ban the Eight!”
Sign our petition here: change.org/BanTheEight
youtu.be/OG7izmE14CI?si=qqnC…
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Our organization launched the “EMC Don’t Wait, Ban the Eight” Campaign calling for the EMC to ban all 8 #PFAS chemicals, not just the politicized 3. All of NC deserves clean drinking water, not Just one city.
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As the EMC begins its meetings today to consider the @NCDEQ proposed standards for PFAS in surface and groundwater, I have sent the following letter to the EMC clarify mischaracterizations and misunderstandings contained in a recent @NCChamber letter on this subject.
This morning, @DemocracyGreen delivered a petition of nearly 130 signatures and growing to the NC Environmental Management Commission, supporting @NCDEQ call to ban 8 cancer-causing PFAS.
See it here: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
North Carolina regulators pass on establishing standards for forever chemicals northcarolinahealthnews.org/… via @NCHealthNews
Thank you for the ethical journalism in covering @DemocracyGreen efforts, the people, our impacts from #PFAS exposure and the truth.
EMC Remove all 8 PFAS
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Thank you for your continued service to the people of NC- advocating, providing clear scientific data & bold action to tackle #PFAS. We have dozens of members and volunteers who have reported illnesses due to exposure. There is enough proof of impact, EMC must remove all 8 PFAS.
I’m disappointed that the EMC, yet again, refused to take action on PFAS standards that protect the health and pocketbooks of North Carolinians. The science is clear - PFAS exposures have health impacts, including cancer. The people of NC have waited too long for action.
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There are real world consequences to their lack of action - our analysis shows that not setting standards results in more than 9,000 avoidable cancer-related deaths, and thousands of cases of additional health impacts.
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The EMC had all the information they needed to move forward - but they continue to move the goalposts. They are more interested in protecting polluters than protecting the health of everyday North Carolinians.#PFAS
Thank you @SecretaryBiser for you and your staff’s continued leadership and science standing for North Carolinians against the continued threats of #PFAS.
I’m disappointed that the EMC, yet again, refused to take action on PFAS standards that protect the health and pocketbooks of North Carolinians. The science is clear - PFAS exposures have health impacts, including cancer. The people of NC have waited too long for action.
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We are stronger united! Thank you to: the Eastern NC Civic Group, Pink With A Passion: Breast Cancer Awareness, National Black Leadership Caucus SE Region, Trouble in the Water (Wilmington), faith leaders and all the supporters who stood up at the EMC Stop PFAS Press Conference!
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'As we’re talking about #youth leading the way, we’re talking about rectifying the past
We’re bound together. Not just in a system of oppression, but in a system of resistance'
—@LaMeshiaLe, @DemocracyGreen President at #CEC31 Youth Panel on the Fight for #EnvironmentalJustice
Thank you to Councilwoman @Mary4DistrictA for supporting the people of Wake County and ALL of North Carolina fighting for clean water safe from poisonous cancer causing #PFAS chemicals. 🙏🏾
RALEIGH, DURHAM, & NC ENVIRONMENTALIST!
Tomorrow the Environmental Management Commission will be considering a critical vote to pass or deny water quality criteria that can for PFAS from NC drinking water and restore fish habitats. Join @DemocracyGreen for a press conference
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Yesterday, nearly 30 community leaders representing over 25 #NC counties came together to call on the Environmental Management Commission to approve @NCDEQ recommendations to remove 8 PFAS from our drinking water sources. The EMC decided to stall the vote but we won’t be silenced
addressing our communities' longstanding concerns about legacy pollution. Together, we are stronger. 💪🏽
Stay tuned on updates on our next steps in the fight for clean and safe water! #PFAS #EnvironmentalJustice #CommunityUnity
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Thank you @CommonCause Pres. & CEO @KaseVirginia, @StopBigMoney Legislative Affairs Director @rushadthomas, @CampaignLegal Sr. Director of Redistricting @markpgaber, @DemocracyGreen President @LaMeshiaLe & @CWAUnion Legislative Advisor Ty Marino for joining this critical effort! – at Washington, DC
