These Black Los Angeles Residents May Soon Receive Environmental Reparations

This story was originally published by Capital B and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As a child in the 1950s and ’60s, Regina Martin became so used to the oil pumpjacks near her home that she assumed every child lived beside them. Everyone was made “sick to [their] tummy” by the sulfurous, rotten-egg smell that […]

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