BONUS: Biden Promises To Grapple With Environmental Racism
Feb 7, 2021
13:31
forum Ask episode
view_agenda Chapters
auto_awesome Transcript
info_circle Episode notes
People of color experience more air and water pollution than white people and suffer the health impacts. The federal government helped create the problem, and has largely failed to fix it.
In this episode of Short Wave, NPR climate reporter Rebecca Hersher talks about the history of environmental racism in the United States, and what Biden's administration can do to avoid the mistakes of the past.
