Kaya Marie Allan Sugerman (she/her)

Environmental Health & Justice Advocate

[Sierra Club @SierraClub]

Smaller airplanes still fly with lead-laced fuel, poisoning families that live near airports where these planes land 🚫😷🛩️

Today, @EPA acknowledged this major public health issue in an "endangerment finding." Now, it's time to act on it!

Our statement: https://t.co/W7vLAKafnV

[Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1]

“In the US rates of childhood leukemia increased 35% from 1975-2019; childhood brain cancer rose by 33%. Today 1 in 285 Americans are diagnosed with cancer before age 20…an increase too rapid to be explained by genetics”

🔥 by ⁦@KristinaWrites⁩ https://t.co/FZ1IK33vdJ

[Coming Clean @StopToxics]

Take action! Write to 99 Cents Only Stores execs demanding a chemical management policy that can protect our communities from toxics in products.

➡️✍️https://t.co/dZ0l3jZv6R

[Bloomberg @business]

Items stored in fluorinated plastics touch virtually every facet of the US economy https://t.co/iVTLWvsd0b via @BW

[Center for Environmental Health @CenterEnvHealth]

“People and our environment suffer when our government’s checks on air pollution fail to keep up with the science. EPA is failing to fulfill its responsibility." -@KayaSugerman, CEH

We joined @CenterForBioDiv & @SierraClub in legal action against @EPA. https://t.co/qdWiu40kh9

[Oʻahu Water Protectors @oahuWP]

“Many of the Indigenous organizers leading relief efforts in Lahaina… emerged from the sovereignty movement, said Healani Sonoda-Pale”

https://t.co/MoFv9c68J5

[Hawaiʻi Alliance for Progressive Action @HawaiiAction]

#repost @kanaeokana “[Lahaina’s] following our kūpuna, nānā i ke kumu, looking towards the source, which is wai.

Without wai, I mean, our body’s made up of 60% of water. If that’s not a hōʻailona (sign) of what to do first, you might have missed the waʻa.” @kainamakua

[AAPI Victory Alliance @aapialliance]

The devastation from Maui fires has highlighted the issue of Hawaiian sovereignty.

Read here from experts @KealaKelly and @KanielaIng about the island’s fraught place in American history.

https://t.co/mXd6P2wgsr

[Greenpeace Canada @GreenpeaceCA]

“The disturbing silence left by the missing & mourned souls tells of a disaster that's unnatural, shaped by the human hand—a byproduct of the dangerous dance between climate change & centuries of colonial greed.” @KanielaIng

Time for a paradigm shift 💔

https://t.co/NfYGzCapR7

[Center for Environmental Health @CenterEnvHealth]

"@EPA must uphold its duty to protect public health and not blind itself to the dangers posed by outdated air-pollution standards.” -@KayaSugerman, CEH

We joined @CenterForBioDiv & @SierraClub to challenge EPA’s failure to address nitrogen air pollution. https://t.co/2NbRCSVjN9

[United Farm Workers @UFWupdates]

There is a historic heat wave in Texas, with many areas topping 117°. High humidity makes the heat more brutally dangerous.

Gov. Abbott just signed a bill nullifying local requirements to give workers water breaks. We still have no federal heat standards.

[Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali 🤙🏾✊🏾 @EJinAction]

- An Ode To #ToriBowie-
In the hush of an unspoken goodbye,
Beneath the shadow of a summer sky,
The light of a life, with a name well-known,
Tori Bowie, departed, all alone.

In rooms of gold, where victories were sung,
In echoes of the races she had run,
In the wake of glory, of dreams now lost,
Lies the chilling reality of a heavy cost.

She, a titaness on the track,
Sprinting ahead, no looking back,
Held an unborn promise, a spark of life,
Struggled, suffered, in silent strife.

Oh, where were the hands, the safety net,
When in her hour of need, death she met?
Where were the voices, the healing care,
To echo her name, in the chilling air?

A nation that revels in her speed,
Should not falter in her time of need.
Tori Bowie, a name worth more than gold,
A tale of sorrow, that must be told.

In the face of statistics, stark and cold,
In the memory of a hero, brave and bold,
A call to action, loud and clear,
The strengthening of Black Maternal care is near.

The toll is too high, the price too steep,
The burden we place on those who weep.
For the mothers, their cries echo in the night,
A clarion call, demanding the right.

The right to survive, to thrive, to be,
The right to bring life, safe and free.
For all the Toris, their names we'll say,
And work for a better, safer day.

In her honor, let the change begin,
In the memory of her life, let's usher it in.
A champion sprinter, a mother-to-be,
Tori Bowie, your name will forever be free.
©MustafaSantiagoAli #BlackMaternalHealth #Moms #Olympian

[tara houska ᔖᐳᐌᑴ @zhaabowekwe]

The attempt by fossil fuel industry, the adoption industry & conservatives to strike at the heart of tribal sovereignty has failed: 

https://t.co/9d8PzbNH2K

Excellent news for Native families & the environment ✊🏽❤️🔥 #ProtectICWA

[Natali Segovia @NSegoviaEsq]

As an Indigenous woman and an attorney, I am used to heartbreak. We wake up to fight in the “iron-cold” of the law every day, knowing the scales rarely tip in our favor. But today, in this moment, we celebrate the #SCOTUS decision in Brackeen v. Haaland that upholds #ICWA. 🧵

[Hawaii EMA @Hawaii_EMA]

Kīlauea continues to erupt, entrance, intrigue, and inform. At this time only one vent remains active, in the far southwestern portion of the crater. Go here for a livestream view: https://t.co/WwxY9Ml6au

[Safer States @saferstates]

“We’re hitting an inflection point,” said Sarah Doll, national director of Safer States...“The train is moving down the tracks, and either you get out of the way or you’re going to get hit by litigation and accountability.”

Read more here: https://t.co/wzo5SfQqah

[Kaya Marie Allan Sugerman (she/her) @KayaSugerman]

We sent legal notices to 5 industrial facilities in #LosAngeles County for discharging toxic #PFAS into the groundwater. Groundwater makes up 40-60% of CA's total drinking water supply. As an LA County resident, I'm gonna upgrade from my Brita. Many can't afford to. #waterislife

[Center for Environmental Health @CenterEnvHealth]

⚠️ Toxic #ForeverChemicals have no place in sources of drinking water.

But we discovered that 5 metal-plating facilities in Los Angeles County discharged #PFAS into groundwater.

We're taking legal action.
https://t.co/5IaOm8ye67

[CA Clean Water Action @cleanh2oca]

Clean Water Action's Legislative and Policy Director Andria Ventura emphasizes a much needed urgency as the @CenterEnvHealth takes the battle against #PFAS in California to the next level.

https://t.co/nHZ9y3dw1M

[Center for Environmental Health @CenterEnvHealth]

"Grassroots leaders responding to #PFAS drinking water contamination remind us that '#WaterIsLife.'

State and federal agencies must treat these toxic chemical exposure issues like our lives depend upon it, because they do.” -@KayaSugerman, CEH https://t.co/5IaOm8ye67

[Center for Environmental Health @CenterEnvHealth]

“Information for information’s sake does nothing to protect our precious water resources. It’s time to take the #PFAS crisis much more seriously and hold companies that release these toxic chemicals accountable."

-Andria Ventura, @cleanh2oaction https://t.co/5IaOm8ye67