#frontline communities

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'We’re just waiting to die': the black residents living on top of a toxic landfill site

In the 1980s, black New Orleanians were encouraged to buy houses built above a toxic landfill. Three decades later residents of Gordon Plaza

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DEFEND THE SACRED!

March with us on 4/29 for climate, jobs, and justice.

Art by Jackie Fawn.

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Huge toxic site to be built on grounds where slaves are likely buried, files reveal

Massive petrochemical complex proposed in southern Louisiana opposed by activists angered by revelations of site’s significance

Imagine building a toxic waste dump on graves of the so called “founding fathers.” Enslaved people built America.

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Louisiana issues permits for proposed complex that would double area's toxic emissions

The $9.4bn facility, owned by Formosa Plastics, would consist of 14 separate plastic plants in St James parish, known as Cancer Alley

Digging our own graves is also a form of job creation but maybe we shouldn’t be encouraging it.

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How fossil fuel execs lobbied black leaders to overturn a California city’s coal ban

Their main objective was to build a marine terminal to transport coal through the city, raising fears of increased air pollution

Fossil fuel companies always process their climate killing wares on land of disenfranchised peoples with less power to say no—literally the dirtiest trick in the book.

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See How the World’s Most Polluted Air Compares With Your City’s

From the Bay Area to New Delhi, explore air pollution around the world.

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Hurricane Dorian: 'We're at the frontline of climate change but we don't cause it', says Barbados PM – live

Mia Mottley, PM of Barbados, urges action to help Caribbean islands as regional leaders fly to Bahamas to see Hurricane Dorian’s destruction

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Sanders's climate change ideas spoiled by cowardice.

Sanders’s climate change ideas spoiled by cowardice.

Bernie Sanders has proposed a list of his Presidential aspirations, which is long on goals, though short on specific details.

The next time you hear me attacked as a socialist, remember this: I don’t believe that government should take over the grocery store down the street or control the means of production.

President Trump was elected with a much shorter list (eliminate Obamacare, build a wall,…

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