🌍✨ For Black voters, climate action means little without relief from rising costs
Why we’re watching: For Elijah Lee, protecting the environment has always been about what’s happening close to home.
He grew up in a predominantly Black, low-income community in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, and went to school next to a paper mill that filled the air with pollution. 💚
He always wondered why it seemed like the only employment option for people in town. Now, as data centers expand in Virginia, where he moved as a teenager, he fears the political promises of data center-driven economic growth won’t reach him or his gene…
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- 📌 Key signal: For Elijah Lee, protecting the environment has always been about what’s happening close to home. He grew up in a predominantly Black,…
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Reporting curated for GreenTV. Original reporting via Grist.