Germaine Gooden-Patterson has lived in Clairton, Pennsylvania, for more than 15 years, but it wasn’t until she began a job as a community health worker in 2019 that she understood how much air pollution was affecting her neighbors’ lives—and her own.  Gooden-Patterson’s work for the Pittsburgh-based nonprofit Women for a Healthy Environment required her to visit … Continue reading In the ‘Armpit of the Universe,’ a Window Into the Persistent Inequities of Environmental Policy