By Willy Blackmore Originally appeared in Word in Black Growing up in Memphis’s Riverside community, a majority-Black neighborhood that’s also home to an oil refinery, LaTricea Adams, the founder and […]
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There’s a Reason Garbage Incinerators Usually Aren’t in White Neighborhoods
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 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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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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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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How air pollution and the housing crisis are connected
By Siri Chilukuri As wildfire smoke from Canada plagued parts of the United States for the second time this summer, expanding into parts of the Midwest and East Coast, cities […]