Sitting within the Jones Fall Watershed, a sub-watershed of the Chesapeake Bay, lies Druid Heights in West Baltimore, one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods. The state of Maryland has identified … Read more
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Advanced Nuclear Energy: Impacts and Considerations
Energy demand in the United States is rapidly rising, and electricity use from data centers is growing just as quickly. By 2030, data centers are projected to consume more electricity … Read more
Community Spotlight with the Keaukaha Action Network
For generations, the Keaukaha Hawaiian Homelands Community on Hawai’i Island has shouldered risks that few outside the community ever see. Surrounded by a cluster of industrial and military facilities known … Read more
CECC Roundtable Event Recap: Data Centers, Local Perspectives, and Community Impacts
The Clean Economy Coalition of Color (CECC) is an alliance of some of the nation’s most insightful Black, Latinx/é, Indigenous, Asian, and Pacific Islander leaders and advocates of color. This … Read more
Honoring the Past to Imagine the Future
The Clean Economy Coalition of Color (CECC) is an alliance of some of the nation’s most insightful Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, and Pacific Islander leaders and advocates of color. This … Read more
Preempting Justice: Trump’s AI Executive Order Is an Environmental Justice Problem
When people talk about environmental justice and artificial intelligence, they usually picture data centers: massive buildings guzzling energy and water, often sited in communities already living with more than their … Read more
Defunding the Future: Inside Federal Cuts to Tribal Energy Sovereignty
In the far north of California, the Hoopa Valley Tribe is tucked among steep forested mountains and the winding Trinity River. This land has been home to the Hoopa for … Read more
When the Smoke Clears: The Health and Environmental Toll of Refinery Explosions
The Chevron refinery explosion in El Segundo California on October 2nd, 2025 could have been a deadly disaster, and it raised serious concerns about public safety and environmental justice. Though … Read more
Data Centers 101
Data centers are changing the landscape of energy production and consumption in the United States. Increased development of data centers present complex and urgent climate and justice issues: including impacts … Read more
EPA Should Put Communities First, AI Data Servers Second
The Trump administration has pitched a quick Executive Order fix for America’s AI build-out: put new data centers on Brownfield and Superfund properties where pollution remains contained, not removed, and … Read more
