Both joy and frustration are in the air in New Orleans at the HBCU Climate Change Conference this week as environmental and climate advocates and researchers from around the United States express an urgent need for climate action and pollution cleanup in poor communities and communities of color
”We find ourselves fighting old fights, fights we won. And now we're fighting them all over again. And that's why we need you young people. This is your fight moving forward,” Wright said.
Some attendees have been working to clean the water and air in their communities for two and even three generations. Pioneers said there is greater awareness and attention paid to issues like water, air, renewable energy, food access and flood protection for their communities, but they've seen little action on the ground on those issues.
“We live in a state that for years abdicated its environmental protection obligations" with respect to the chemical manufacturing industry, she said. Reggie Sylvestine, a member of the Alabama–Coushatta tribe in Texas who works in fire prevention and management, was at the conference for the first time and said what he learned was eye-opening.
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