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FLYING UNDER THE RADAR

Environmentalists cautiously optimistic about new Jax committee on sea level rise — WJCT

Louisiana online map shows where not to eat the fish or swim — Times-Picayune

Polluted waterways, drinking water safety among top concerns for Louisiana activists – WAFB

Florida passed an amendment that let judges allow Everglades oil drilling — Broward Palm Beach New Times

Coal community leaders urge congress to include them in climate action — Ohio Valley Resource

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Your Southern Stories

“The Cahaba is the last of central Alabama’s wild rivers, lined by longleaf pines and flowing freely over spider-lily-cloaked shoals. Dams destroyed rivers like this all over our state, but the Cahaba flows on, a fragile relic of a nearly obliterated past.”

—Charles Miller, Birmingham, Alabama

“Those houses were backed against a crick, which was backed against an unidentified Appalachian Mountain. Wide and green. Near vertical, in my childhood mind. The street behind 806 has since been completely demolished. It was cheaper for the city to get rid of the structures than it was to reimburse tenants for the recurring flood damage. Each time I look at the house on the screen a little fire lights inside me: how close I was to such vertical beauty; how I never took a few extra steps in to explore; how I yearn—with no discernible reason—for that home.”
—Christa Iwu, Louisville, Kentucky 

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The Cahaba River in central Alabama. Credit: Charles Miller

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STORIES WORTH YOUR TIME

Could a universal basic income solve Appalachia’s post-coal poverty? — 100 Days in Appalachia

Across Appalachia, historic coal towns are looking to the outdoor economy for their next act — Ensia

The hospital is dead. Welcome to Ducktown. — The Tennessean

The secret lives of black rails, and the scientists who seek them — Times-Picayune, Audobon

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