Black environmental organizations are calling out the environmental racism that has ostracized BIPOC from the conversations surrounding environmental sustainability and change. These groups advocate for individuals disproportionately impacted by environmental concerns , including pollution, climate change , lack of access to clean water and food insecurity. The civil rights movement saw the birth of vocal activism regarding inequalities in access to basic human rights. In 1982, one of the first environmental protests was held in Warren County, NC. According to the Environmental and Energy Study Institute, the town’s Black residents held a sit-in strike against the development of a landfill “built to bury soil contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyl, a toxic industrial waste.” The sit-in led to 500 arrests, but it sparked a wave of national attention and exposed how communities of color are dismissed regarding environmental health and safety. In 2020, Yale conducted a survey...
