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President Biden has promised to address the environmental impacts of systemic racism. On Wednesday, he signed an executive order on environmental justice.
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Devon Hall has lived most of his nearly seven decades in Duplin County, N.C. The land is flat and green there in the southeastern part of the state, about an hour's drive from the coast. It's lovely unless you live downwind of one of the county's many industrial hog farms.
"It can get really bad," says Hall, the co-founder of the Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help in Duplin County.