Civil rights law offers a tool for communities of color trying to stop unequal exposure to pollution. Over and over, people here have tried to get environmental justice.
Rethink the news: Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear and considering different views.
The Gordon Plaza community in New Orleans, built on a former landfill, symbolizes how the legal “burden of proof” is often stacked against people harmed by pollution.