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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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. […]
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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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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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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 […]