Latinx web developers focus on rural projects through worker-owned co-op
A North Carolina truck driver turned coder uses technology as a gateway to local impact for farmworkers and other rural immigrant communities.
The oil and gas industry is using Louisiana’s climate task force to push carbon capture
The state’s unwavering support of the oil, gas, and chemical industries has made it difficult to reduce emissions, fund coastal restoration, or address extreme weather.
Mississippians work to reduce childhood lead exposure as state, feds fail to intervene
Experts say solutions aimed at reducing lead exposure from water need to be educational and environmental. Here’s how to protect your family.
‘Infrastructure apartheid’: Africatown’s fight against toxins, new toll bridge
The historic Alabama town is already surrounded by polluting industries. An impact study says traffic avoiding a proposed toll bridge would only make the air more toxic.
Our new rural N.C. community coordinator
Ariana García is based in western N.C. and will be organizing with rural Latinx communities.
N.C. mobile home park residents forced to uproot their home, lives during eviction crisis
A community of homeowners will soon have to move from the land they’ve leased for decades—with nowhere to go.
Toxic floodwaters threatened a Florida jail. Nearly 800 were locked inside.
Many rural jails and prisons face environmental pollution and flooding, but they aren’t often considered in emergency planning.