Hip Hop Caucus Applauds EPA’s Stronger Clean Air Standards for Chemical Plants
WASHINGTON — Today, Hip Hop Caucus’ Senior Director of Campaigns and Advocacy Russell Armstrong issued the following statement in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s final rule that will significantly reduce toxic air pollution from chemical plants, including ethylene oxide and chloroprene: “”The Environmental Protection Agency’s long-awaited signing of rules to reduce toxic air pollution […]
Hip Hop Caucus Launches Season Six of Award-Winning Climate Podcast ‘The Coolest Show’
Podcast will explore urban greening, artivism, the evolution of slave plantations to petrochemical hubs in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, and will feature interviews from artists, legislators, activists, and more LOS ANGELES – Hip Hop Caucus’ award-winning climate and environmental justice podcast ‘The Coolest Show’ launches season six today on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Hosted by Hip […]
Hip Hop Caucus Denounces Tennessee Governor’s Block on Police Reform Law
In a distressing turn of events, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has signed into law a bill obstructing critical police reform measures inspired by the Death in Custody killing of Tyre Nichols at the hands of five Memphis police officers. This law undermines local autonomy and perpetuates racial inequities within Tennessee’s legislative framework. Governor Lee’s endorsement […]
Hip Hop Caucus Responds to EPA’s Finalized Pollution Standards for Light- and Medium-Duty Vehicles
WASHINGTON — Today, Hip Hop Caucus’ Senior Director of Campaigns and Advocacy Russell Armstrong issued the following statement in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s new pollution standards for passenger cars, light-duty trucks and medium-duty vehicles: “Although it’s not everything we wanted to see to push for a cleaner environment faster, the U.S. Environmental Protection […]
Hip Hop Caucus Launches ‘Bank Black and Green’ Campaign
Multi-year economic and environmental justice effort aims to strengthen frontline communities and disempower mass incarceration and systemic environmental racism DALLAS — Hip Hop Caucus is launching a new economic and environmental justice campaign, Bank Black and Green, which encourages Black-owned banks to commit against funding the fossil fuel industry and mass incarceration and deploy capital […]
Hip Hop Caucus Congratulates Tanya Clay House on Prestigious Civil Rights Award from the National Bar Association
Heman M. Sweatt Award bestowed to committed change agents using their legal acumen for greater good WASHINGTON – Hip Hop Caucus is proud to celebrate Tanya Clay House, Executive Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Policy, who has been selected as an Heman M. Sweatt Award recipient at the National Bar Association’s 44th Annual […]
Hip Hop Caucus President & CEO Presented Environmental Champion Award
WASHINGTON — The DC Environmental Film Festival recently announced Hip Hop Caucus’ President and CEO, and host of the award-winning climate justice podcast The Coolest Show, Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., as the recipient of the Environmental Champion Award for his long-standing environmental and racial justice advocacy. “It’s an honor to receive this important award at […]
Environmental Justice Leaders Respond to U.S. EPA Plan to Reconsider Emissions from Existing Gas Plants in Supplemental Rulemaking
NATIONAL (February 29, 2024) – Today leaders within the environmental justice movement responded to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plan to tackle emissions from existing gas plants in a supplemental rulemaking for the “New Source Performance Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New, Modified, and Reconstructed Fossil Fuel–Fired Electric Generating Units (EGU); Emissions Guidelines for […]
Hip Hop Caucus’ Short Film “Underwater Projects” Selected for Social Justice Now Film Festival and DC Environmental Film Festival
Narrated by comedian Wanda Sykes, short film explores environmental injustice and redevelopment in sinking Norfolk, VA WASHINGTON – Hip Hop Caucus is thrilled to announce that its short film “Underwater Projects” has been selected for inclusion in both the Social Justice Now Film Festival and the DC Environmental Film Festival. The thought-provoking film is narrated […]
Hip Hop Caucus Responds to Bureau of Prisons’ Chronic Failures Resulting in Hundreds of Preventable Deaths in Custody
WASHINGTON — Today, Hip Hop Caucus President and CEO Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. issued the following statement in response to a new report by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General highlighting numerous policy violations and operational failures that contributed to nearly 200 suicides by people who were incarcerated, based on a […]
