By Willy Blackmore Originally appeared in Word in Black A year ago, New Jersey adopted one of the most ambitious timelines for a state-level transition away from fossil fuels: Jersey […]
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The Oil and Gas Industry Loves Louisiana’s New Carbon Capture Plan
By Willy Blackmore Originally appeared in Word in Black Southern Louisiana is oil-and-gas country. Some of the biggest gas refineries in the country are located along the Mississippi River in […]
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Could the Days of Lead in Drinking Water Soon Be Over?
By Willy Blackmore Originally appeared in Word in Black In April, it will have been 10 years since the administration of Governor Rick Scott changed the water source for Flint, Michigan, […]
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It’s Getting Hot in Here
By Willy Blackmore Originally appeared in Word in Black I started writing regularly for Word in Black back in August, and after a few weeks, I began to worry a […]
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The Kids Suing the EPA Over Climate Change Are Black and Brown Too
Genesis B. doesn’t have air conditioning. That used to be the norm in Long Beach, California, where the 17-year-old was born and raised. A beach city in southern Los Angeles […]
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A Whole Lot of Black People Live Near Deadly Coal Plants
By Willy Blackmore Originally appeared in Word in Black For decades, Chicago got a portion of its power from a very local source: a pair of coal-fired power plants on the city’s […]
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Even as Air Quality Improves, Black Houston Is Getting More Smog
By Willy Blackmore Originally appeared in Word in Black The record-high temperatures that baked Houston and surrounding Texas communities this summer did not only cause health problems directly related to the heat. […]
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Renters Hit Hardest by Hurricanes
By Willy Blackmore Originally appeared in Word in Black When a hurricane tears through the Gulf Coast or the Carolinas, or hammers a city in the northeast, we always hear […]
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World Hits Climate Tipping Point. What’s it Mean for Black Folks?
By Willy Blackmore Originally appeared in Word in Black With cooler temps arriving, America’s long, hottest summer of 2023 is now one for the record books. It was a season […]
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The National Climate Assessment Goes Woke
By Willy Blackmore Originally appeared in Word in Black When the first National Climate Assessment came out 23 years ago, “global warming” was, in so many ways, still a very far-off notion. […]
