The decision “recognizes what is at stake … [a] public health emergency that originated in slavery,” said an attorney.
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Black “Cancer Alley” Residents Win Key Ruling in Environmental Racism Case Read Post »
NDAs and tax deals negotiated before public input have become standard practice for data center projects, says a critic.
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Amid the Winter Storm, a Rural SC County Quietly Approved a $2.4B Data Center Read Post »
Residents say US control of Venezuela’s heavy crude will worsen environmental racism along the Gulf.
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Venezuelan Oil Brought to US Would Be Refined in Black Gulf Coast Communities Read Post »
Residents remain uncertain about their water, their health, and whether legal action will help them.
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After a Billion-Dollar Oil Disaster, a Louisiana Community Fights for Relief Read Post »
US deportations of African migrants are on pace to nearly triple compared to the Biden years.
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A US-Ghana Deportation Pact Is Reshaping Lives Here and Abroad Read Post »
From Texas to Virginia and everywhere in between, Black residents are confronting these projects in different ways.
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Black Communities Across the US Refuse to Be Sacrifice Zones for Data Centers Read Post »
Power lines, roads, and bridges were damaged, and more than half a million people were left without electricity.
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Jamaican Americans Mobilize for the Island’s Recovery After Hurricane Melissa Read Post »
The EPA did not test soil on local properties in the predominantly Black town of Roseland after the August 22 blast.
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Independent Tests Find Lead, Other Toxins After Louisiana Oil Plant Explosion Read Post »
This story was published in partnership with Capital B. Willie Calhoun knows how to live with water. His home, cradled between the Mississippi River and a patchwork of canals, is split by the surging, ever-present current. But it wasn’t always that way in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward. Before the city’s largest aqueduct, known as the […]
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The Threat That Could Destroy 20 Years of Progress in the Lower Ninth Read Post »
“We need help over here and we’re not getting it,” said a resident of the city where 90 percent of kids live in poverty.
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Black Louisiana Community Coated in Toxic Fallout After Explosion at Oil Plant Read Post »
This story was originally published by Capital B as part of their series chronicling the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. As the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approached in 2015, Michelle McCullum, a 25-year-old mother of two, drove her children, ages 3 and 5, to a once bustling but now desolate industrial area of New […]
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Is the Legacy of Hurricane Katrina More Lethal Than the Storm? Read Post »
The EPA has spent months gutting key regulations, but repealing the Endangerment Finding could be the worst blow yet.
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By Revoking Core Climate Finding, Trump Puts Black Neighborhoods at Risk Read Post »
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