Gladwyn d’SouzaAbout five years ago, the #neighborhood started seeing major #flooding. The inundations began around the same time the Alabama Department of #Transportation—or ALDOT—finished widening a two-lane section of #Highway 84 at a higher elevation than before, and residents say the road’s drainage system funnels stormwater onto their properties.
#EnvironmentalRacism #/EnvironmentalJustice #SubsidizingFossilFuels #ExternalizingImpacts #DisposablePlaces #VampireCapitalism
Plagued by Floods and Kept in the Dark, a Black Alabama Community Turns to a Hometown Hero for Help - Inside Climate News
Robert Bullard is on a mission to bring environmental justice to his hometown of Elba, Alabama. The distinguished professor at Texas Southern University has made a name for himself as a pioneer of the environmental justice movement. He’s won prestigious awards for his decades of work examining and unveiling the nation’s persistent racial disparities and […]