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Climate changemakers fighting for environmental justice: This is what transformation is about
By Jeff Berardelli, Katherine Niemczyk
May 24, 2021 / 4:27 PM
/ CBS News
Former coal miner sees future in solar power
Scott Shoupe is a fourth-generation coal miner recently turned renewable energy technician from eastern Kentucky. Leo Woodberry is the reverend of a small, predominantly African American church in Florence, South Carolina. Their lives couldn t be much more dissimilar.
But recently their paths crossed when Shoupe s work took him on a 350-mile journey to Woodberry s church. And although they are two very different people from two very different places, they discovered they had something in common: they are both determined to use the challenges posed by environmental neglect and climate change and turn them into opportunities for their communities. ....

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