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New maps show strong

correlation between redlined places in Seattle and worse air quality

The Seattle Times, March 2022

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Redlining means 45 million Americans are breathing dirtier air,

50 years after it ended

The Washington Post, March 2022

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Study: People of color breathe more polluted air, regardless of income

Grist, Dec. 2021

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It’s Going to Be a Hot Summer.

It Will Be Hotter if You’re Not Rich.

The New York Times, May 2022

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Black communities are last in
line for disaster planning in Texas

The Washington Post, May 2022

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Another power plant might

still come to Newark, despite residents’ pleas to stop

New Jersey Monitor, April 2022

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New maps of King County,

Seattle show how some communities are harder hit by heat waves

The Seattle Times, June 2021

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Environmental Racism is Real, Destructive and Deadly

Los Angeles Sentinel, May 2021

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People of Color Breathe More Hazardous Air. The Sources Are Everywhere.

The New York Times, April 2021

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There’s no climate justice

without racial justice

Orlando Sentinel, April 2021

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To Build Back Better, We

Must End Fossil Fuel Racism

Greenpeace, April 2021

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How computer mapping

could help Biden find and fix polluted neighborhoods

Reuters, April 2021

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America's dirty divide: how environmental racism leaves

the vulnerable behind

The Guardian, Feb. 2021

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'If white people were still here, this wouldn’t happen': the majority-

Black town flooded with sewage

The Guardian, Feb. 2021

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A Black 'Cancer Alley'

Community Makes Gains

Against Massive Plastics Plant

Drilled News, Dec. 2020

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How Decades of Racist

Housing Policy Left

Neighborhoods Sweltering

The New York Times, Aug. 2020

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When a Virus Exposes

Environmental Injustice

NRDC, April 2020

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'Heat islands': racist housing

policies in US linked to deadly heatwave exposure

The Guardian, Jan. 2020

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'They chose us because we were rural and poor': when environmental racism and climate change collide

The Guardian, March 2019

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US black and Hispanic minorities

bear disproportionate burden

from air pollution

Science Daily, March 2019

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People of Color Are on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis

Green American Magazine, Spring 2016

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Communities of color are the

‘first and worst’ hurt by climate change; urgent action needed

to change course

The Seattle Times, July 2021

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Dr. Robert Bullard: ‘We Don’t

Have 40 Years’ to Fight

for Climate Justice

Civil Eats, July 2021

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EPA just detailed all the ways

climate change will hit U.S. racial minorities the hardest. It’s a long list.

The Washington Post, Sept. 2021

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Without access to charging

stations, Black and Hispanic communities may be left behind

in the era of electric vehicles

The Washington Post, Dec. 2021

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When It Rains in Detroit

The Nation, Sept. 2021

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Black people are about to

be swept aside for a South

Carolina freeway — again

The Washington Post, Sept. 2021

Books

Please buy from a black-owned bookstore (click here for a list), your local independent bookstore, or from the Bookshop link provided.

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The Poisoned City:

Flint's Water and

 the American

Urban Tragedy

Anna Clark 2018

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A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism

and Its Assault on the American Mind

Harriet Washington,  2019

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Discovering the Flint Water Crisis

Chelsea Clinton and Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha discuss the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. (28 min.)

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How heat is radically altering Americans' lives before

they're even born

(6 min.)

Listen

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A podcast, by the Southern

Environmental Law Center, with 

environmental stories in the South.

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Decolonizing Science

The Ecology of Racism

with Chris Schel‪l‬

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Floodlines

Hurricane Katrina. A story of rumors, betrayal, & one of the most misunderstood events in American history. (9 episodes)

Organizations Working for Climate Justice

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Generation

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Deep South Center for Environmental Justice

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Florida Rising

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Fueling 

the Fire

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Southern Enivronmental

Law Center

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WE ACT

For Environmental Justice

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