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North Carolina communities’ decades-long environmental justice fight
As large-scale hog and poultry industries continue to grow in eastern North Carolina, local residents push back against decades of air and water pollution.
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4 more states propose harsh new penalties for protesting fossil fuels
Industry-designed bills to silence climate protests are under consideration in Arkansas, Kansas, Minnesota and Montana. More are likely to come.
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Johana-Marie Williams: Citizens for a Sustainable Future bridging the green gap in Black communities
For African American communities, the effects of racism on social and economic sustainability often hamper their ability to respond to various threats to their environmental sustainability.
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Communities suffering from pollution demand justice
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the corrosive legacy of environmental racism in the United States.
The environmental movement is very white. These leaders want to change that
People of color have long been excluded from environmental policy and conservation—creating blind spots that perpetuate inequality.
Congress is poised to pass Great American Outdoors Act
A bill that would provide billions of dollars to the National Park Service, the Forest Service and the Land and Water Conservation Fund has been called one of the most important environmental proposals in decades.
Nixon signed this key environmental law. Trump plans to change it to speed up pipelines, highway projects and more
Black, brown and poor communities have relied on the law for generations to stop projects that could impact their neighborhoods.
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