Some neighborhoods went without sanitation services for over a month after Hurricane Ida.
Category: Waste
Posted inAppalachia, Justice, Public Health, Tennessee, Virginia, Waste
Air pollution from a Virginia landfill is making residents sick. Officials won’t call it an emergency.
A chemical reaction taking place below the landfill’s surface is emitting harmful gases.
Posted inCOVID-19, Justice, Louisiana, Public Health, Waste
‘They think we’re machines but we’re people’: New Orleans sanitation workers reflect a year after strike
We caught up with the hoppers who went on strike to demand better pay and safety precautions during the pandemic. They say little has changed.
Posted inCOVID-19, Justice, Louisiana, Public Health, Waste
Watch our mini documentary: ‘On Strike for Everybody’
Documentary filmmaker Marta Rodriguez Maleck spent time with the City Waste Union over the last several weeks, documenting their picket line.
Posted inCOVID-19, Justice, Louisiana, Public Health, Waste
Photos: New Orleans sanitation workers strike for protections and better pay
Hoppers are demanding higher hourly wages, hazard pay, and PPE during the coronavirus pandemic.
Posted inArkansas, Land, Mid-South, Waste
How an illegal dump in rural Arkansas burned for a year
It was one of the worst “stump dump” fires in modern U.S. history — but local agencies and companies skirted responsibility to put it out.