By Willy Blackmore Originally appeared in Word in Black Summers are hot and sticky in South Florida, and that was particularly the case this year in Miami, where the heat index […]
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The EPA Almost Did Something to Help Cancer Alley. But Then They Didn’t
By Willy Blackmore Originally appeared in Word in Black Last fall, the Environmental Protection Agency said something that many have long suspected to be true: an investigation of the Louisiana Department […]
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The New House Speaker Doesn’t Believe in Climate Change
By Willy Blackmore Originally appeared in Word in Black In 2016, the year new Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was first elected to Congress, there was major flooding […]
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These Teens Are Fed Up With Breathing Toxic Coal Dust
By Willy Blackmore Originally appeared in Word in Black Everyone seems to be in agreement about what the black dust that settles on cars and houses around South Baltimore is: […]
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Clean Energy, It’s Just What the Doctor Ordered
By Willy Blackmore Originally appeared in Word in Black A shiny black expanse of solar panels is becoming an increasingly common sight on the rooftops of homes and other buildings coast-to-coast. But […]
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A Young Black Woman Is Now the Public Face of Biden’s Climate Efforts
By Willy Blackmore Originally appeared in Word in Black When the Biden Administration announced the creation of the American Climate Corps last month, it was heralded as a huge victory for […]
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Black Folks Get Factory Pollution, But Not the Jobs
By Willy Blackmore Originally appeared in Word in Black The cause-and-effect (and effect, and effect) of climate change is abundantly apparent in Louisiana’s Saint John the Baptist Parish. Sandwiched between […]
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To Be Young, Gifted, and Green
By Willy Blackmore Originally appeared in Word in Black From the children of famed activists who have thrown themselves into the family business to local organizers who simply responded to […]
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Remote Work’s Climate Benefits Bypass Black Workers
Remote workers reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by up to 58% compared to on-site workers, and they also enjoy other benefits such as a richer social life and a better work-life balance, but the benefits are more readily available to white and well-off workers.
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Why Biden’s Climate Corps Needs to Prioritize Black Youth
by Willy Blackmore Originally appeared in Word in Black For nearly a decade, starting in 1933, the United States government hired some 3 million young men to work in forests, […]
