Civilian workers at Eglin AFB in Florida tested the defoliant Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. Many are now sick; some are dead. Part 1 of our story about this scandal uncovered startling secrets. In Part 2, Jon Kalish returns to Eglin to follow up.
Members of California Indian tribes care very deeply about their land and its best uses. But if tribes are “unrecognized” by the Federal government, they may not have a seat at the table when crucial decisions are made about their ancestral homes.
Warren County, N.C. is the birthplace of environmental justice, where hundreds were arrested in 1982 protesting a PCB dump. We share that history, and meet activists fighting for social and environmental justice today.
The peat swamp forests of Borneo are the site of a failed agricultural experiment. As indigenous people lost their livelihood, carbon poured into the atmosphere. From the jungles of Indonesia, our first international edition.
Dams on the Klamath River in Northern Calif. and southern Oregon will be removed in the next few years, due to compromises among warring groups that put aside self-interest. Learn how competing priorities were addressed.
Farmworkers have long lived in awful conditions in California’s Coachella Valley. Reporter Ruxandra Guidi has been visiting one community for a decade. She says community health workers are now making a difference there.
Navajo residents of the Red Water Pond Road community in New Mexico near Church Rock have lived with radioactive contamination for 50 years. They’re tired of being in a state of toxic limbo the uranium industry bequeathed when it packed up and left.
In 2012, a fire at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, Calif. caused 14,000 residents to flee. In October 2018 Chevron agreed to spend $160 million on improvements to its refineries. Smackdown tells the story of how one community fought Chevron and won. Produced and Reported by Claire Schoen
Civilian employees at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida tested the defoliant Agent Orange in the 1960s. Public radio veteran Jon Kalish brings us the story of these workers, who have suffered from ailments including soft-tissue sarcomas and lymphoma.
One way to avoid deadly fires in the West is trusting controlled burns, as Native Americans have long done. Indians aren’t allowed to follow cultural practices of caring for the land. Now we see how that affects everyone in the age of climate change.
Northern California Public Media presents Living Downstream: The Environmental Justice Podcast, produced in association with the NPR One mobile app. Living Downstream explores environmental justice in communities from California to Indonesia and is hosted by NCPM News Director Steve Mencher. The podcast features some of the most experienced environmental reporters in the public radio system, as well as a handful of talented newcomers.
In East Chicago, Indiana, authorities built a public housing project on land once occupied by a lead smelting operation. The area has been declared a Superfund site, and residents of the housing project, but not the surrounding area, have been moved.