After a judge ruled that a railroad could take their land, landowners in Sparta, Georgia, are appealing the decision to the state’s Supreme Court.

Systemic racism rooted in Jim Crow era policies has cost Black farmers an estimated $326 billion in land lost because it was inherited without a legal will or title.

Alabama officials deny that the flooding of a community outside official flood zones had anything to do with a highway expansion. Local residents disagree

Robert Bullard, the “father of environmental justice,” has pledged to bring the community’s concerns to the White House.

For the Wiregrass

Basic science has taught us that rainwater runs downhill.  A project to widen and elevate a controversial highway through Elba, Alabama, has pointed all drainpipes away from the road’s impervious surf...

Veteran environmental justice advocate Robert Bullard, deeply disheartened by the Sierra Club’s broken promises to flood-impacted Shiloh residents in his hometown, has cut ties with the organization a...

Basic science has taught us that rainwater runs downhill.  A project to widen and elevate a controversial highway through Elba, Alabama, has pointed all drainpipes away from the road’s impervious surf...

For the Wiregrass

Basic science has taught us that rainwater runs downhill.  A project to widen and elevate a controversial highway through Elba, Alabama, has pointed all drainpipes away from the road’s impervious surf...