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Blacks in Green supports Pembroke Environmental Justice Coalition opposition to Nicor Gas expansion and the call on Gov. Pritzker to bring clean energy solutions to the black farmbelt.

Keith McDonald

Chicago Race, Class & Communities Environment & Public Health

2021 ‘Sustainability Year in Review’ with Karen Weigert and Naomi Davis

By  Steve Bynum
   

Reset Sustainability Contributor, Karen Weigert, gives a retrospective on the sustainability highs and lows for 2021. She’s joined by Naomi Davis of the environmental justice coalition “Blacks In Green” to evaluate the progress in Chicago for the last year in defeating environmental racism and inequity.

GUESTS: Naomi Davis, founder and president, Blacks In Green

Karen Weigert, executive vice president, Slipstream; former chief sustainability officer, city of Chicago

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