Teens Are Fed Up With Breathing Toxic Coal Dust

+ Why the Flint water crisis was a Black problem

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These Teens Are Fed Up With Breathing Toxic Coal Dust

Youth activists from Free Your Voice are fighting to shut down a century-old coal terminal that pollutes predominantly Black neighborhoods.

New Study Reminds Us Why the Flint Water Crisis Was a Black Problem

In Flint and other majority-Black cities, social disadvantages, like living in poverty, amplify long-term effects of exposure to lead.

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California Is Making it Cheaper to Cool Down Playgrounds

A new law capping the costs of adding trees and shade structures to school campuses counters entrenched racial inequities in school funding.

EPA Promised to Address Environmental Racism. Then States Pushed Back.

Communities of color bear the brunt of U.S. pollution. Conservatives are targeting the civil-rights law that could change that.

The Continuing Fight for Water in Sandbranch

The historic freedmen’s town has never had running water and its well was contaminated decades ago. Even as the push to establish the necessary infrastructure has been renewed, initiatives remain in-progress.

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