How environmental justice is shaping a new civil rights movement in the South
By focusing on local communities, public health, and economic development, activists start to move the needle on climate change in the South.
Red tides, unpaid taxes, & halted pipelines
Every summer growing up, my family traveled to Florida for a week-long beach vacation. Usually we went to Destin, but one year we drove six more…
Livestock waste lagoons, black cowboys, & skeptical miners
The room was packed on Tuesday for a Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality hearing in Pike County, Mississippi. For the second time in two months, residents…
Environmental health, explosives, & dicamba
Over two decades ago, predominantly black communities in Afton, North Carolina protested a landfill that was supposed to serve as a dumping ground for toxic soil…