ALABAMA: Lowndes County Residents to Get Modern Sanitation

MONTGOMERY, Alabama, May 19, 2024 (ENS) - The U.S. Justice Department and the Department of Health and Human Services, HHS, are proclaiming progress has been made by the Alabama Department of ... Read More

Black residents in rural Alabama demand sanitation equity ... - KUOW

A landmark environmental justice agreement is aimed at fixing longstanding sanitation issues in a rural, predominantly Black Alabama county. Residents say they've waited long enough. Read More

Is Sanitation a Civil Right? Alabama Becomes Test Case

Otherwise, the feds can re-open the investigation, potentially finding that Alabama violated the civil rights of Black residents in Lowndes County by allowing these conditions to persist. Read More

Sanitation Problems Have Plagued Black Residents of an Alabama County ...

More from TIME Lowndes County has become emblematic of the sanitation problems plaguing an untold number of Americans nationwide. Read More

Lowndes County, Alabama has had sewage problems for decades. : NPR

A landmark environmental justice agreement is aimed at fixing longstanding sanitation issues in a rural, predominantly Black Alabama county. Residents say they've waited long enough. Read More

Alabama Black Belt Becomes Environmental Justice Test Case: Is ...

Otherwise, the feds can re-open the investigation, potentially finding that Alabama violated the civil rights of Black residents in Lowndes County by allowing these conditions to persist. Read More

Black residents in rural Alabama demand sanitation equity ... - WUNC

A landmark environmental justice agreement is aimed at fixing longstanding sanitation issues in a rural, predominantly Black Alabama county. Residents say they've waited long enough. Read More

Alabama Black Belt becomes environmental justice test case: Is ...

Alabama agreed to take responsibility for providing residents in Lowndes County, a rural county between Selma and Montgomery, with adequate sewage treatment, whether they can afford it or not. Read More

Black residents in rural Alabama demand sanitation equity, saying 'it's ...

A landmark environmental justice agreement is aimed at fixing longstanding sanitation issues in a rural, predominantly Black Alabama county. Residents say they've waited long enough. Read More

Black residents in rural Alabama demand sanitation equity, saying 'it's ...

Ruby Rudolph of White Hall, Ala. says sanitation should be a right. Lowndes County native and community organizer Stephanie Wallace says in Alabama, poor Black people are often the last to get help. Read More