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On the Historic Route From Selma to Montgomery, an AI Cloud Looms

In this rural Alabama community, some residents can’t flush their toilets. Developers want to build a state-of-the-art data center next door.

By Lee Hedgepeth

With Latest Round of Terminations, Trump Administration Continues Dismantling EPA’s Environmental Justice Portfolio

By Aman Azhar

Trump Announces ‘Termination’ of ‘Illegal DEI’ Settlement Over Raw Sewage in Poor, Majority-Black Alabama Communities

By Lee Hedgepeth, Dennis Pillion

Rev. Ben Chavis speaks as panelist for the Real Talk Drives Real Change Tour at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington, D.C. on on June 26, 2022. Credit: Brian Stukes/Getty Images

‘Never Let Anyone Break Your Spirit’: How an Environmental Justice Forefather Is Thinking About Our Current Moment

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

A Year After Historic Civil Rights Settlement, Alabama Slowly Bringing Sanitation Equity to Rural Black Communities

By Dennis Pillion

In Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley,’ Excitement Over New Emissions Rules Is Tempered By a Legal Challenge to Federal Environmental Justice Efforts

By Victoria St. Martin

California Pesticide Regulators’ Lax Oversight Violates Civil Rights Laws, Coalition Charges

By Liza Gross

In Darrow, Louisiana, Monique Harden of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice talks to residents about carbon capture at the Hillaryville Pavilion in June. Credit: Emily Kask for the Washington Post via Getty Images.

Q&A: The EPA Dropped a Civil Rights Probe in Louisiana After the State’s AG Countered With a Reverse Discrimination Suit

Interview by Steve Curwood, "Living on Earth"

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