Politics Photo by Adam Kring on Unsplash Catherine Coleman Flowers: Hurricane Ida shows the one-two punch of poverty and climate change Advocates often talk about social justice, political justice, environmental justice, climate justice and more as though they are separate issues. The fact is: inequalities overlap and amplify each other.
Solutions www.nytimes.com Experts debate Biden's climate policy promises A group of experts gathered to debate the prospects for the new White House administration’s big promises on the environment.
Impacts capitalandmain.com Hands across the water: Catherine Flowers' quest to drain the septic swamp A book written by the “Erin Brockovich of sewage” is a call to find common ground for clean water and other environmental justice causes.
Impacts e360.yale.edu Filthy water: A basic sanitation problem persists in rural America Residents of Alabama's Lowndes County lack adequate wastewater systems and must contend with sewage backing up into their yards and homes.
Impacts grist.org This Fixer wrote the book on addressing poverty, wastewater, and climate change in rural America A conversation with Catherine Flowers, author of "Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret."