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us/Long Exposed to Polluted Air, Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Residents Are Now in a COVID-19 Hotspot
By Julie Dermansky
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Confirming fears, cases of COVID-19 have been spreading at an alarming rate in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, an 80 mile stretch along the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge that is l...
us/For Trump’s EPA, Back to Normal Means More Pollution
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This story originally appeared in Capital & Main and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration committed to strengthening coverage of the climate story....
us/COVID-19 Fears Intensified for New Mexico Family Living in Fracking Industry’s Shadow
By Julie Dermansky
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Penny Aucoin and her husband Carl Dee George have worried about living near oil and gas producing sites in New Mexico's Permian Basin since the sites began springing up near their home six years ag...
us/Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Community At Increased Risk of COVID-19
By Julie Dermansky
on
“Our people aren’t prepared for a pandemic,” Robert Taylor, executive director of the Concerned Citizens of St. John The Baptist Parish, told me a couple of days before the governor of Louisiana is...
A roughneck in a red hard hat operates the pipe ramp on the oil rig Citadel Rig 6.
us/Op-Ed: The US Must Protect Communities and Workers But We Need Our Leaders to Stop Bending to the Oil and Gas Industry
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By Megan Milliken Biven Imagine a sovereign nation with nearly 29 million citizens and the eleventh largest economy in the world. Now imagine that this nation’s legislature only met to represent i...
uk/Comment: A Just Transition in Scotland Doesn’t Mean Riots on the Streets
By Mike Small
on
The Scottish government established a Just Transition Commission in 2018, recognising the country’s unique need for a participatory plan to rapidly cut its emissions. That commission has just publi...
uk/March for Women Highlights Need for Climate Justice and Gender Equality
By Frances Rankin
on
“What’s the point of gender justice if you don’t have a world in which to live?”, asks Dr Helen Pankhurst, great-granddaughter of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, and granddaughter of women’s rights...
us/Momentum Builds to Monitor Cancer Alley Air Pollution in Real Time After Exxon Refinery Fire in Louisiana
By Julie Dermansky
on
A large fire at ExxonMobil's Baton Rouge oil refinery late on February 11 lit up the sky for miles and continued until dawn. The night of the fire, ExxonMobil representatives claimed that air monit...
us/Climate Justice and Indigenous Rights Advocates Rally in Solidarity With Wet'suwet'en People as RCMP Continue Raids
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By Julia Conley, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY-SA 3.0 US. Indigenous rights supporters held solidarity actions across Canada over the weekend as the Royal Canadi...
Sharon Lavigne stands outside holding a small stop sign and wearing a white t-shirt reading 'RISE ST. JAMES' and a closed fist
The Plastics Giant and the Making of an Environmental Justice Warrior
By Julie Dermansky
on
This report was produced as part of ivoh’s Restorative Narrative Fellowship. On the evening of January 6, Louisiana state regulators issued 15 key permits to the Taiwanese petrochemical corporatio...

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us/Long Exposed to Polluted Air, Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Residents Are Now in a COVID-19 Hotspot
ByJulie Dermansky
on

Confirming fears, cases of COVID-19 have been spreading at an alarming rate in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, an 80 mile stretch along the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge that is l...
Series: Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Communities at Risk
Series: Louisiana's Cancer Alley
us/For Trump’s EPA, Back to Normal Means More Pollution
ByGuest
on

This story originally appeared in Capital & Main and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration committed to strengthening coverage of the climate story....
us/COVID-19 Fears Intensified for New Mexico Family Living in Fracking Industry’s Shadow
ByJulie Dermansky
on

Penny Aucoin and her husband Carl Dee George have worried about living near oil and gas producing sites in New Mexico's Permian Basin since the sites began springing up near their home six years ag...
Series: Permian Problems: Fracking Industry's Promised Land Turns Sour
Series: Fracking the Permian
us/Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Community At Increased Risk of COVID-19
ByJulie Dermansky
on

“Our people aren’t prepared for a pandemic,” Robert Taylor, executive director of the Concerned Citizens of St. John The Baptist Parish, told me a couple of days before the governor of Louisiana is...
Series: Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Communities at Risk
Series: Louisiana's Cancer Alley
Opinion
us/Op-Ed: The US Must Protect Communities and Workers But We Need Our Leaders to Stop Bending to the Oil and Gas Industry
ByGuest
on

By Megan Milliken Biven Imagine a sovereign nation with nearly 29 million citizens and the eleventh largest economy in the world. Now imagine that this nation’s legislature only met to represent i...
A roughneck in a red hard hat operates the pipe ramp on the oil rig Citadel Rig 6.
Opinion
uk/Comment: A Just Transition in Scotland Doesn’t Mean Riots on the Streets
ByMike Small
on

The Scottish government established a Just Transition Commission in 2018, recognising the country’s unique need for a participatory plan to rapidly cut its emissions. That commission has just publi...
uk/March for Women Highlights Need for Climate Justice and Gender Equality
ByFrances Rankin
on

“What’s the point of gender justice if you don’t have a world in which to live?”, asks Dr Helen Pankhurst, great-granddaughter of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, and granddaughter of women’s rights...
us/Momentum Builds to Monitor Cancer Alley Air Pollution in Real Time After Exxon Refinery Fire in Louisiana
ByJulie Dermansky
on

A large fire at ExxonMobil's Baton Rouge oil refinery late on February 11 lit up the sky for miles and continued until dawn. The night of the fire, ExxonMobil representatives claimed that air monit...
Series: Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Communities at Risk
Series: Louisiana's Cancer Alley
us/Climate Justice and Indigenous Rights Advocates Rally in Solidarity With Wet'suwet'en People as RCMP Continue Raids
ByGuest
on

By Julia Conley, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY-SA 3.0 US. Indigenous rights supporters held solidarity actions across Canada over the weekend as the Royal Canadi...
The Plastics Giant and the Making of an Environmental Justice Warrior
ByJulie Dermansky
on

This report was produced as part of ivoh’s Restorative Narrative Fellowship. On the evening of January 6, Louisiana state regulators issued 15 key permits to the Taiwanese petrochemical corporatio...
Series: Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Communities at Risk
Series: Louisiana's Cancer Alley
Sharon Lavigne stands outside holding a small stop sign and wearing a white t-shirt reading 'RISE ST. JAMES' and a closed fist

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