In Puerto Rico, environmental injustice and racism inflame protests over coal ash
- Written by Hilda Lloréns, Faculty in Anthropology, University of Rhode Island
For scholars like me who study environmental justice, it has been encouraging to see residents in Flint, Michigan and the Standing Rock Sioux in North Dakota organize against threats to their homes and health. But elsewhere in our country, other struggles are happening out of the spotlight – and often dragging on for years.
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