by southeastej | Dec 20, 2017 | EJ Issues
Dear NC EJ Network Family, We hope this letter finds you well, and enjoying the holiday season! Thank you for your ongoing commitment to the NC Environmental Justice Network. This year was full of seemingly endless battles for justice, and we appreciate you sticking...
by southeastej | Aug 15, 2017 | EJ Issues
From the NC Environmental Justice Network Staff: Regarding “NC poised to test what critics call a ‘snowblower blowing garbage juice’ ” (Aug. 12): We at the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN) would like to applaud Gov. Roy Cooper on his veto of HB...
by southeastej | Aug 4, 2017 | EJ Issues
Let’s play a game of “Guess Who?” I am telling you to take a couple of pills that will help with headaches. No, I am not a doctor or a scientist. No, these pills have not been studied or researched. No, I can’t prove that it will help with headaches. No, I don’t know...
by southeastej | Jul 21, 2017 | EJ Issues
I saw firsthand in North Carolina how corporate interests are disproportionately placing environmental and public health burdens on low-income communities of color that they would never accept in their own neighborhoods. In North Carolina, large corporate pork...
by southeastej | Jul 12, 2017 | EJ Issues
Over Duplin County…there are at least fifty (hog farms) in a ten-mile radius. Each farm has a minimum of two thousand pigs, most far more. So a lowball estimate would mean one hundred thousand pigs in ten miles. Ten thousand pigs a mile. A 180-pound pig can...
by southeastej | Jun 30, 2017 | EJ Issues
When the final chapter is written on these cases (nuisance lawsuits against the hog industry), we’ll see the people being represented are being prostituted for money. -NC State Rep. Jimmy Dixon (Duplin, R) “Deep financial ties exist between the...
