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=====Fossil Fuel Racism in the United States: How Phasing Out Coal, Oil, and Gas Can Protect Communities===== | =====Fossil Fuel Racism in the United States: How Phasing Out Coal, Oil, and Gas Can Protect Communities===== | ||
[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629623001640 | Author not listed here | Energy Research & Social Science | 2023] | [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629623001640 | Author not listed here | Energy Research & Social Science | 2023] | ||
This scholarly article argues that fossil-fuel systems externalize pollution and health costs onto Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor communities, making fossil-fuel pollution a specific form of environmental racism. | This scholarly article argues that fossil-fuel systems externalize pollution and health costs onto Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor communities, making fossil-fuel pollution a specific form of environmental racism. | ||
=====How Black North Carolinians Pay the Price for the | =====How Black North Carolinians Pay the Price for the World's Cheap Bacon===== | ||
[https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23003487/north-carolina-hog-pork-bacon-farms-environmental-racism-black-residents-pollution-meat-industry | Jamie Berger | Vox | April 1, 2022] | [https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23003487/north-carolina-hog-pork-bacon-farms-environmental-racism-black-residents-pollution-meat-industry | Jamie Berger | Vox | April 1, 2022] | ||
This article explains how industrial hog farms in eastern North Carolina disproportionately affect Black, Latinx, and Indigenous residents. It links hog waste lagoons, odors, respiratory harms, and weak regulation to a broader history of racial discrimination and land-use inequality. | This article explains how industrial hog farms in eastern North Carolina disproportionately affect Black, Latinx, and Indigenous residents. It links hog waste lagoons, odors, respiratory harms, and weak regulation to a broader history of racial discrimination and land-use inequality. | ||
=====The US Nuclear Weapons Program Left | =====The US Nuclear Weapons Program Left 'a Horrible Legacy' of Environmental Destruction and Death Across the Navajo Nation===== | ||
[https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27062021/nuclear-weapons-navajo-nation-uranium-mining-environmental-destruction-health/ | Cheyanne M. Daniels | Inside Climate News | June 27, 2021] | [https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27062021/nuclear-weapons-navajo-nation-uranium-mining-environmental-destruction-health/ | Cheyanne M. Daniels | Inside Climate News | June 27, 2021] | ||
This article examines the legacy of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation, where mining for the U.S. nuclear weapons program left radioactive contamination, illness, and abandoned waste. It is useful for connecting environmental racism to Indigenous communities and extractive industry. | This article examines the legacy of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation, where mining for the U.S. nuclear weapons program left radioactive contamination, illness, and abandoned waste. It is useful for connecting environmental racism to Indigenous communities and extractive industry. | ||
