Imani spent a decade in community health research before turning to writing full time. She covers environmental justice: air and water quality, heat, siting fights and the data residents use to make their case.
The notice is usually short and easy to miss: a facility has applied for a new air permit, or to renew or change an existing one, a draft is available for…
Read the story: Reading an Air Permit: A Resident's Guide to Public Comments and HearingsIn February 2021, a winter storm cut power to millions of Texans, many of them for days, and left millions more under orders to boil water they had no way to…
Read the story: How to Build an Emergency Kit for Home, One Shelf at a TimeIn the late 1930s, appraisers working for the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation drew color-coded maps of more than 200 American cities. Green meant "best,"…
Read the story: Hotter Blocks, Older Maps: Redlining, Tree Canopy and Urban HeatIn September 1982, residents of Warren County, North Carolina, lay down on a country road to stop dump trucks hauling soil laced with PCBs to a new state…
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