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Category: Georgia

Posted inGeorgia, Justice, Public Health

Smell something, tell something: How Black residents in coastal Georgia are holding polluters accountable

by Neesha Powell-Twagirumukiza July 14, 2021January 14, 2022

Redlining, disinvestment, and lack of political power has made Southern communities of color prime targets for industries that often provide jobs in the areas they pollute.

Posted inGeorgia, Land, Public lands

Comment period open for potential national park and preserve in Georgia

by Janisse Ray March 23, 2021January 14, 2022

The public has until March 26 to comment on the proposed Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve.

Posted inCOVID-19, Economies, Florida, Food & Agriculture, Georgia, Justice, North Carolina, Public Health, South Carolina

‘Treated as expendable’: Migrant farmworkers fall through gaps in the rural South’s patchwork health system

by Timothy Pratt October 7, 2020January 14, 2022

The health care system and workplace safety regulations weren’t set up to help the people who harvest our food. The pandemic has only deepened the problem.

Posted inAlabama, Black Belt, Climate, Delta, Economies, Energy, Georgia, Justice, Mississippi, North Carolina, Public Health

How Europe’s wood pellet appetite worsens environmental racism in the South

by Danielle Purifoy October 5, 2020January 14, 2022

An expanding wood pellet market in the Southeast has fallen short of climate and job goals—instead bringing air pollution, noise and reduced biodiversity in majority Black communities.

Posted inClimate, COVID-19, Culture, Food & Agriculture, Georgia, Public Health

‘The culture manifests the landscape’: A Q&A with Southern writer Janisse Ray

by Allison Braden September 21, 2020January 14, 2022

The Ecology of a Cracker Childhood author talks the pandemic, climate change, and why we need to fall in love with our places.

Posted inClimate, Economies, Florida, Georgia, Water

For 30 years, Georgia and Florida have been fighting over water

by Haisten Willis September 27, 2019January 14, 2022

Georgia farmers are pitted against Florida fishers in legal battle over water rights that’s worsening with climate change — and the case may soon be coming to a head.

Posted inClimate, Culture, Georgia, Land

‘If we don’t burn it, nature will’: Georgia blazes old fears, leads nation in prescribed fire

by Maya Miller, Samantha Max May 28, 2019October 21, 2020

In the face of more intense and frequent wildfires, federal land managers consider adopting burning practices the Southeast has been successfully using for decades.

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