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 »
Data centers are driving a surge in the construction of power generation facilities involving fracked gas.
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Fracking Industry Executives Are Salivating Over the AI Data Center Boom Read Post »
“The problems don’t go away when the reporting goes away,” says the Corporate Toxics Information Project’s co-director.
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Trump EPA Plan Would Restrict Public’s Right to Know About Climate Pollution Read Post »
Trump has taken a wrecking ball to environmental regulation. Who benefits?
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Trump’s Environmental Policy Is Determined to “Make America Poisoned Again” 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 »
The American South has long been a site of both corporate extraction and fierce political resistance.
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Big Tech Data Centers Compound Decades of Environmental Racism in the South Read Post »
Democracy and the social safety net are being attacked like they were after the storm, says journalist Jordan Flaherty.
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Hurricane Katrina Aftermath Is Both Reverberating and Amplifying 20 Years Later Read Post »
But the findings, based on data from 2017, likely underestimate the health toll of the US oil and gas lifecycle.
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Study: Oil & Gas Industry Linked to Tens of Thousands of Deaths, Preterm Births Read Post »
A new report found higher levels of fine particulate matter in areas near cattle and hog farms across the US.
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Latinx Communities Face Disproportionate Health Impacts From Factory Farming Read Post »
The “Toxic Billionaire Tour” targets the financial backers of natural gas projects that have devastated the region.
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Activists From “Cancer Alley” Launch US Tour to Confront Fossil Fuel Financiers Read Post »
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