A hurricane season on top of a pandemic showed how farmworkers in North Carolina are susceptible to dangerous conditions on the job.
Category: Public Health
Posted inCOVID-19, Gulf Coast, Justice, Louisiana, Public Health
How faith leaders organized to win two major environmental victories in Louisiana
Churches and other places of worship helped strike down an industry-backed ballot amendment and delay a massive plastics project.
Posted inAppalachia, Atlantic Coast, Black Belt, Climate, COVID-19, Delta, Energy, Gulf Coast, Justice, Mid-South, Public Health
Election 2020: The stakes are high for climate, environmental justice, and energy in the South
A state-by-state rundown of major races and ballot measures, plus resources to check out before heading to the polls.
Posted inCOVID-19, Disaster Recovery, Economies, Gulf Coast, Justice, Louisiana, Public Health
After hurricanes, it’s harder than ever for Lake Charles’ Black residents to cast a ballot
Louisiana officials and recovery groups have few answers about efforts to reach voters displaced by two back-to-back hurricanes during the pandemic.
Posted inCOVID-19, Economies, Energy, Justice, Mid-South, Public Health, Tennessee
Frustrated Memphis residents to put pressure on pipeline developers at Saturday meeting
Byhalia Connection developers claim eminent domain, try to buy Shelby County Schools property for pipeline planned to run through a Black Memphis neighborhood.
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
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
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.