From small towns to large cities, Black communities who have long faced environmental injustice have spent the last two weeks protesting police brutality and systemic racism.
Category: Justice
Posted inCOVID-19, Economies, Food & Agriculture, Immigration, Justice, North Carolina, Public Health
‘They didn’t tell us anything’: North Carolina poultry plant workers say Butterball isn’t protecting them from COVID-19
As the virus spreads through meatpacking plants across the U.S., immigrant communities struggle to get answers from the company or state about cases at a Mount Olive facility.
Posted inAppalachia, COVID-19, Justice, Public Health, Tennessee
These coal communities are protecting sick miners from COVID-19 and pushing Congress for more support
In rural east Tennessee and Kentucky, community networks and mutual aid efforts are supporting vulnerable people who need transportation, internet access, and food.
Posted inAppalachia, COVID-19, Energy, Justice, Public Health
‘There’s going to be something better for him’: Former Blackjewel miners reflect on changes in coal country
A chaotic coal company bankruptcy last year left a father and son out of work. Months later, they say getting out of the industry was a blessing.
Posted inClimate, COVID-19, Economies, Justice, Public Health
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We want to tell stories of challenges, resilience, and response to the pandemic, and we need your help.
Posted inClimate, Gulf Coast, Justice, Louisiana
How Louisiana’s oil and gas industry uses prison labor
Incarcerated people are often dispatched to help clean up disaster sites or assigned to work in the industries that fuel climate change.
Posted inAtlantic Coast, Climate, Florida, Housing, Justice, Public Health
Mold, foundation cracks, sinking houses: How a Florida Habitat for Humanity neighborhood fell apart
Experts, lawyers, and residents argue that affordable housing communities should be built with environmental justice and climate change in mind.