Environmental Justice Archives – Scalawag

Southern Politics

'This plan is a lie.' How biogas could do more harm than good for the hog industry

by Cameron Oglesby March 24, 2022March 28, 2022

Energy utilities have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into a waste management system they say could turn hog industry problems into profits.

A queer and in-color geography: From Mumbai to West Virginia

by Anjali Enjeti March 3, 2022March 4, 2022

Salt, Soil, & Supper: Amending Florida's constitution to save its waterways

by Xander Peters December 8, 2021December 8, 2021

New Orleans has a trash problem. Thanks to climate change, your city probably will, too.

by Drew Hawkins December 3, 2021December 3, 2021

Southern Politics

New Urbanism sells faux sustainability as a luxury on Florida's 30A

by Ashira Morris October 13, 2021November 16, 2022

Mississippi's childhood lead exposure interventions don't do enough for kids

by Erica Hensley October 5, 2021March 9, 2022

You're swamped? Join the club.

by Ko Bragg and Virginia Walcott September 17, 2021September 22, 2021

Scalawag Updates

Hurricane Ida: How to get and give help on the Gulf Coast

by Scalawag Team August 30, 2021September 2, 2021

Salt, Soil, & Supper: The social contracts of municipal water systems

by Xander Peters August 18, 2021August 18, 2021

Salt, Soil, & Supper: Uprooting 'private landowner syndrome'

by Xander Peters August 11, 2021August 13, 2021

Southern Politics

'A lifetime of damage' on a creosote plume in Houston's Fifth Ward

by Xander Peters August 3, 2021August 2, 2021

Salt, Soil, & Supper: This one's for the trees

by Xander Peters July 21, 2021July 21, 2021

Southern Politics

Jackson's water crisis: How you can help

by Tim Majors and Scalawag Editors March 9, 2021September 2, 2022

In Louisiana's petrochemical corridor, COVID-19 spreads like cancer

by Drew Hawkins December 18, 2020December 18, 2020

Southern Politics

Dissent in the Pentagon of the South

by Taylor Barnes December 11, 2020December 11, 2020

After two devastating hurricanes, southwest Louisiana worries the rest of the country has already moved on

by Xander Peters November 9, 2020August 31, 2021

As the wood pellet industry grows across the South, Enviva targets Alabama and Mississippi for future expansion

by Danielle Purifoy October 5, 2020October 5, 2020

Knock on Wood: How Europe's wood pellet appetite fuels environmental racism in the South

by Danielle Purifoy October 5, 2020October 5, 2020

Sweet (and sticky) redemption

by Maurice Bailey & Nik Heynen September 29, 2020October 1, 2020

Southern Politics

John Lewis fought for equal protection. That means tackling pollution, poverty, and policing.

by YVETTE CABRERA FOR GRIST August 28, 2020September 16, 2020

Too heartbreaking to leave, too expensive to stay. More than 802,000 homes are at risk of climate disaster—mostly in the South.

by Xander Peters August 7, 2020November 2, 2020

Filming the end of a town: Environmental racism and abolition

by Alysia Nicole Harris June 29, 2020February 10, 2021

Arts & Soul, Race & Place

Breathing while Black in Mossville, Louisiana

by Danielle Purifoy June 18, 2020October 21, 2020

Scalawag Updates

(Past) Virtual event—Breathing While Black: Fighting environmental racism in the South

by Scalawag Team June 18, 2020October 9, 2020

Ballad of a Land Man: Kentucky theatre takes on fracking

by Kim Kobersmith June 3, 2020September 16, 2020

For Black North Birmingham residents fighting toxic pollution, staying home isn't safe

by Katherine Webb-Hehn April 20, 2020October 1, 2020

Southern Politics

'Working sick'—Kentucky miners fight black lung regulations

by Austyn Gaffney March 2, 2020September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

North Carolina's hog industry could turn a corner—for better or worse

by Ryke Longest February 28, 2020September 16, 2020

On Blackness and bad weather

by Ishmael Bishop February 17, 2020October 1, 2020

Gulf South communities say climate justice requires new economic systems

by Emily Carmichael February 11, 2020November 2, 2020