Feds Deem Black Community’s Waste System a Civil Rights Violation

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For as long as anyone can remember, the lack of a sanitation system in Lowndes County, Alabama, and resulting reliance on piping human waste directly into septic tanks and local creeks, has made life in the community miserable. After years of organizing […]