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COVID In Context: Lead in the Water

COVID In Context: Lead in the Water

Clean Drinking Water, Kristi Pullen Fedinick, Yvette Jordan | 0 comments

Expert Blog Kristi Pullen Fedinick, Co-authored with Yvette Jordan It is understood that water is life. It’s the purest form of nature’s essential presence in our lives. Water baptizes us. Water renews us. Water nourishes us. What happens when the purity of our water...
The Fight For Clean Water – Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

The Fight For Clean Water – Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

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Susan and John Hess Family Gallery and Theater Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort Street  New York, NY 10014 On the occasion of the exhibition Pope.L: Choir, this program brings together four leaders in the field of water safety to talk about drinking water,...
DEMOCRACY NOW Another Flint? Newark, NJ, Faces Public Health Crisis over Lead Contamination in City’s Water Supply

DEMOCRACY NOW Another Flint? Newark, NJ, Faces Public Health Crisis over Lead Contamination in City’s Water Supply

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Interview 9/12/2019 Thousands of residents in Newark, New Jersey, remain unable to drink their tap water in an enduring public health nightmare. Lead contamination has plagued the city for years, but lead levels have spiked even higher in 2019. The crisis recently...
Yvonne A. Taylor, Advance Woman of Achievement and founding member of Sandy Ground Historical Society, dies at 88

Yvonne A. Taylor, Advance Woman of Achievement and founding member of Sandy Ground Historical Society, dies at 88

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November 29, 2022 Yvonne A. Taylor, Advance Woman of Achievement and founding member of Sandy Ground Historical Society, dies at 88 By Jessica Jones-Gorman | jgorman@siadvance.com Yvonne Taylor stands on the steps of Rossville AME Zion Church where she was wed in...
SMART GROWTH AWARDS 2022 Announcing 2022 Smart Growth Winners!

SMART GROWTH AWARDS 2022 Announcing 2022 Smart Growth Winners!

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www.the A1.org By Haili Blassengame ofhttps://the1a.org/segments/water-week-access-to-clean-drinking-water/ Human beings start their days with water. A warm shower. Brushing teeth. Washing faces. The more than two million Americans who live without running water,...
Our kids are on strike | Opinion

Our kids are on strike | Opinion

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By Star-Ledger Guest Columnist By Yvette Jordan In the era of COVID (or post-COVID, as some have cautiously begun to call this time we’re in), we have all become more than familiar with the phrase “nobody wants to work anymore.” As fast-food restaurants and other...
NRDC – Women’s History in the Making

NRDC – Women’s History in the Making

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Environmental justice advocate Yvette Jordan knows firsthand that there’s power in speaking up. In 2018, Yvette discovered that her drinking water in Newark, New Jersey—where she lives and teaches high school—was contaminated with sky-high levels of lead. In fact,...
An Environmental Justice Advocate Inspires Others to Become Agents of Change

An Environmental Justice Advocate Inspires Others to Become Agents of Change

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If you sat in on one of Yvette Jordan’s high school history or social justice classes, you might hear her pleading with students. Not asking them to be quiet, but urging them to speak up. Even if it’s over something that seems simple. Often, their reply is, “Ms....
COVID In Context: Lead in the Water

After drinking water crisis, Newark is winning war on lead

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ABC NEWS November 7, 2021 By DAVID PORTER Associated Press An ambitious program to replace thousands of residential lead water lines in New Jersey’s largest city is about to be completed years ahead of schedule NEWARK, N.J. — On a recent sun-drenched...
Eliminating Lead From Drinking Water Is a Must

Eliminating Lead From Drinking Water Is a Must

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CLICK LINK BELOW to full article on Environmental Law Institute website: https://www.eli.org/sites/default/files/docs/tef/tef-debate-novdec2021.pdf
In the Fight for a Green New Deal, Schools Are the New Front Lines

In the Fight for a Green New Deal, Schools Are the New Front Lines

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Jacobin Magazine September 13, 2021. By Liza Featherstone A major socialist-led grassroots campaign is underway to pass Jamaal Bowman’s Green New Deal for Public Schools — a strategically savvy measure that combines forthright climate action with large-scale...
Lead-tainted water: What Newark can teach US about investing in safety

Lead-tainted water: What Newark can teach US about investing in safety

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The Christian Science Monitor September 1, 2021. By Stephanie Hanes Staff writer  @stephaniehanes Yvette Jordan remembers the day she learned the water fountains at her school were dangerous. It was in March 2016, and Ms. Jordan was teaching history at Barringer High...
NRDC ANNUAL REPORT – VICTORY SETTLEMENT IN NEWARK NJ

NRDC ANNUAL REPORT – VICTORY SETTLEMENT IN NEWARK NJ

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NRDC 2020 Annual Report   May, 2021 SHORTLY AFTER SUING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT earlier this year for its do-nothing update to the Lead and Copper Rule-the outdated federal protection meant to keep lead out of drinking water-NRDC saw a victory in our ongoing city-level...
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