The environmental movement is moving to a moral issue.

Climate change and environmental issues were always a moral and social issue, but sometimes it seemed to be more about trees and bears. 

That’s changing:

National Catholic Reporter

Francis: The Environment Encyclical

May 18, 2015

Aaron Mair Elected Sierra Club President

By Tom Valtin

WHYY

Radio Times  WITH MARTY MOSS-COANE

Minorities, Climate Change, and the Environmental Movement

July 1, 2015

Guests: Aaron Mair, Jacqui Patterson, and Adrianna Quintero - See more at: http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2015/07/01/minorities-climate-change-and-the-environmental-movement/#sthash.JGZfyHhf.dpuf

We had 2 instances of environmental racism in Coatesville. Maybe I should say attempted environmental racism. 

The first was the gas fired electric power plant proposed by then Coatesville City Manager Harry Walker.  

The second was the proponent fracking chemical plant. 

Both industries targeted a poor community that is about 1/2 minority, the City of Coatesville. What is and should be disturbing to our black community is that those industries select black people as their spokespersons to sell a toxic industry to black communities. 

High toxin emitting industries disproportionately are put in low income and minority communities. Those industries often promise jobs that often never materialize. 

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2015

CrakPowerVille Did PA Rep. Hennessey have a role in the Coatesville Power Plant Plan?

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2010

Mr. Morton, “It’s got to go somewhere.”It just happens that they want a fracking chemical plant in a black neighborhood.