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![Digital collage: historic map of Mobile Bay, sign to Africatown, photo of Cudjo Lewis, and illustration of a slave ship]()
![Digital collage: historic map of Mobile Bay, sign to Africatown, photo of Cudjo Lewis, and illustration of a slave ship]()
How the seeds of environmental racism were planted in the Progressive Era
Africatown, the only U.S. community established by West Africans who survived the Middle Passage, demonstrates the long roots of environmental injustice.
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![an aerial image shows flood damage in apartment complex in Orlando Florida after Hurricane Ian in September, 2022.]()
![an aerial image shows flood damage in apartment complex in Orlando Florida after Hurricane Ian in September, 2022.]()
After Hurricane Maria, many Puerto Ricans fled to Florida. Then Ian happened.
The state's affordable housing crisis has made it almost impossible for storm victims to get back on their feet.
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![Yellow caution sign in California warning of flood zone due to rain]()
![Yellow caution sign in California warning of flood zone due to rain]()
Study: Los Angeles’ major flood risk is much higher than previously thought
A 'hundred-year flood' would disproportionately affect the county's Black communities.
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![a black and yellow electric school bus sits in an outdoor parking lot]()
![a black and yellow electric school bus sits in an outdoor parking lot]()
US unveils $1 billion effort to electrify school buses
Electric buses are coming to nearly 400 school districts.
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![a group of women walk down a city street chanting and carrying a sign for climate justice]()
![a group of women walk down a city street chanting and carrying a sign for climate justice]()
‘A much-needed step’: The EPA creates a new environmental justice office
The initiative will give hard-hit communities $3 billion to address pollution.
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![A woman with a bag walks past an electric car charging station in front of a building]()
![A woman with a bag walks past an electric car charging station in front of a building]()
To ensure access to electric cars, some activists are calling attention to ‘charging deserts’
"If we don't get in now, we're going to be behind — and we'll never catch up."
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Higher Ground
America’s oldest Black town is trapped between rebuilding and retreating.
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![Members of Rise St. James protest new chemical developments.]()
![Members of Rise St. James protest new chemical developments.]()
‘Goliath is wobbling’: Louisiana court strikes blow to Formosa’s giant plastics plant
Without air or water permits, the company will have to “go back to the drawing board.”
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![Oscar Sanchez, a participant in the General Iron hunger strike, speaks during a protest of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot in 2021.]()
![Oscar Sanchez, a participant in the General Iron hunger strike, speaks during a protest of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot in 2021.]()
Chicago made its Southeast Side a polluter’s haven, violating civil rights
The city’s decision to relocate a scrapyard to a majority Black and Brown community is part of a pattern of environmental discrimination, according to a federal investigation.
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![houses in the foreground with an oil refinery in the background]()
![houses in the foreground with an oil refinery in the background]()
Experts to Congress: Restore EPA enforcement staffing and funding for environmental justice
Since 2011, enforcement budget has declined by nearly 30 percent.
