Read the full story in the Washington Post. Climate change raises the risk from failing sewage systems. So Catherine Coleman Flowers is working for a
Category: Environmental justice
Benefits of Cap and Trade Often Elude Communities Hit Hard by Air Pollution
Read the full story at Truthout. Pollution, poverty, and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that
University of New Mexico Law Professor Launches Website to Promote Teaching and Practice in Environmental Justice
Read the full story from the University of New Mexico. UNM law professor Cliff Villa has announced the availability of a new open-access website created
Kids, toxic smoke and inequality
Read the full story in the NYT’s Climate Fwd. newsletter. I grew up in the age of smog in Southern California. I lived for a
Developer had big plans for land polluted by the steel industry on Chicago’s Southeast Side. Instead, he flipped the property for millions, and now taxpayers likely will pay for the cleanup.
Read the full story in the Chicago Tribune. During the last years of Chicago’s once-mighty steel industry, a clout-heavy developer seized an opportunity to make
The heavy toll of the Black Belt’s wastewater crisis
Read the full story in the New Yorker. Many rural households in America don’t have access to safe sewage systems. In Alabama, entrenched poverty and
