Gasping for Air
In This Series
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![Formosa Plastics Slave Cemeteries]()
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This plastics company is trying to stop Black residents from visiting a slave burial site on Juneteenth
A group of Black residents from St. James Parish, Louisiana, got the green light to hold an hour-long Juneteenth prayer on a burial plot, owned by plastics company Formosa.
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![photo of protester in mask that reads I cant breathe]()
![photo of protester in mask that reads I cant breathe]()
Black environmentalists are organizing to save the planet from injustice
The words ‘I can’t breathe’ have added meaning for polluted black communities.
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![Rep. Raul Ruiz]()
![Rep. Raul Ruiz]()
A bill in Congress could get to the bottom of how coronavirus links air pollution and racism
The Environmental Justice COVID-19 Act would allocate an additional $50 million to EPA grant programs.
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Wait … Chevron said ‘black lives matter’?
Big Oil’s promises to take on racism and climate change ignore the bigger picture.
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Report: These rarely used, dirty power plants could be cheaply replaced by batteries
A sweeping analysis studied nine states to identify which peaker plants have the greatest potential to be replaced by clean energy alternatives.
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US states have spent the past 5 years trying to criminalize protest
Recent years have seen unprecedented racial and environmental justice protests — and an unprecedented state response.
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‘Ring down the curtain’: What protests mean for a nation already in crisis
It takes collective action to dismantle a system and put another in its place.
