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Living with Lead: Public Housing on a Superfund Site
In East Chicago, Indiana, authorities built a public housing project on land once occupied by a lead smelting operation. The area has been declared a Superfund site, and residents of the housing...
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Firing Forests to Save Them: Could Native American Traditions Protect Land...
One way to avoid deadly fires in the West is trusting controlled burns, as Native Americans have long done. Indians aren’t allowed to follow cultural practices of caring for the land. Now we see how...
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The Forgotten Civilians of Eglin Air Force Base
Civilian employees at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida tested the defoliant Agent Orange in the 1960s. Public radio veteran Jon Kalish brings us the story of these workers, who have suffered from...
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Smackdown: City Hall vs. Big Oil
In 2012, a fire at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, Calif. caused 14,000 residents to flee. In October 2018 Chevron agreed to spend $160 million on improvements to its refineries. Smackdown tells the...
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Uranium - Toxic Legacy at Red Water Pond Road
Navajo residents of the Red Water Pond Road community in New Mexico near Church Rock have lived with radioactive contamination for 50 years. They’re tired of being in a state of toxic limbo the uranium...
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Trailer Park Activists of the Eastern Coachella Valley
Farmworkers have long lived in awful conditions in California’s Coachella Valley. Reporter Ruxandra Guidi has been visiting one community for a decade. She says community health workers are now making...
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Klamath Water Wars
Dams on the Klamath River in Northern Calif. and southern Oregon will be removed in the next few years, due to compromises among warring groups that put aside self-interest. Learn how competing...
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Fire and Rain
The peat swamp forests of Borneo are the site of a failed agricultural experiment. As indigenous people lost their livelihood, carbon poured into the atmosphere. From the jungles of Indonesia, our...
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New Growth in the Birthplace of Environmental Justice
Warren County, N.C. is the birthplace of environmental justice, where hundreds were arrested in 1982 protesting a PCB dump. We share that history, and meet activists fighting for social and...
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Justice for Unrecognized Tribes
Members of California Indian tribes care very deeply about their land and its best uses. But if tribes are “unrecognized” by the Federal government, they may not have a seat at the table when crucial...
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The Forgotten Civilians of Eglin Air Force Base, Part 2
Civilian workers at Eglin AFB in Florida tested the defoliant Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. Many are now sick; some are dead. Part 1 of our story about this scandal uncovered startling secrets....
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Living with Lead: Public Housing on a Superfund Site
In East Chicago, Indiana, authorities built a public housing project on land once occupied by a lead smelting operation. The area has been declared a Superfund site, and residents of the housing...
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Preview: Living Downstream Addresses Environmental Justice
Here's a preview of our 12-part podcast, featuring stories from California and the rest of the country (and the world). We're doing a deep dive on environmental justice issues. The timing couldn't...
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Firing Forests to Save Them: Could Native Traditions Save Lives?
When we imagined a podcast about environmental justice – it was before the Tubbs fire here in Sonoma County – and the deadly fire seasons of 2017 and 2018. Even so, we wouldn’t have thought of Indians...
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Forgotten Civilians of Eglin Air Force Base
During the Vietnam War the U.S. military defoliated large swaths of Vietnam with Agent Orange to deprive enemy forces of jungle cover. In the process it exposed American soldiers to this toxic chemical...
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Smackdown: City Hall vs. Big Oil
"Smackdown" tells the story of Richmond California, a working class town that grew up in the shadow of a massive Chevron refinery. The refinery emits a toxic soup of chemicals and residents suffer an...
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Uranium: A Toxic Legacy at Red Water Pond Road
For the Navajo people Mother Earth is sacred. She places her mineral riches below ground. That’s where they’re meant to stay. If the Earth’s elements are hauled up to the surface, Navajos believe they...
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Trailer Park Activists of Coachella Valley Fight for Health
You may be familiar with Coachella from hearing about the annual music festival there. But for 10 years, journalist Ruxandra Guidi has been visiting farmworkers in the area, learning about the...
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Fire and Rain: Living Downstream Reports from Borneo
The peat swamp forests of Borneo are the site of a failed agricultural experiment. Planners believed that rice should grow in the swamps, but it couldn't. Even today, experiments with growing oil...
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