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Broken Ground
Broken Ground is a podcast produced by the Southern Environmental Law Center digging up environmental stories in the South.
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Season 8: Plantations to Pollution
On a map, you can often spot pollution sources like a power plant, a highway, or a factory. But why were these things built where they are, and who li...
Rural Justice: The Power of Coalitions
This season of Broken Ground we spend time in the rural South with the people who call it home. Often celebrated for the quiet life close to nature, a...
The Landfill Next Door
We don’t spend a lot of time thinking about where our trash ends up but, when you live next door to a landfill, you don’t have that luxury. The burnin...
After the River Rises
"Inland flooding" was a phrase that often needed explanation. Now all you need to say is "Helene". The storm that ravaged Appalachia was a stark remin...
The Wood Pellet Paradox
How can a power source that creates more climate warming emissions than coal be called renewable? This is the paradox of wood pellets, a type of bioma...
The Fishers' Right To Know
Is that fresh-caught fish safe to eat? In too many rivers across the rural South, the answer is a hard 'no.' Failing sewage systems, agricultural runo...
The Strip Mine and The Swamp
To call the Okefenokee swamp a treasure is to undersell just how special this watery world is. Tucked into the rural southeast corner of Georgia, this...
Jonathan Vigliotti on Connecting the Climate Dots
CBS News journalist and author Jonathan Vigliotti joins Broken Ground host Leanna First-Arai to dig into his on-the-ground coverage of breaking climat...
Cornell Watson on Justice Through Photography
Photographer Cornell Watson's images recognize the camera can be a tool for connection, and action. Whether its pollution from hog farms, efforts to...
Victoria Bouloubasis and Paola Jaramillo on Bridging Language Barriers
Whether its natural disasters or shifting political winds, Victoria Bouloubasis and Paola Jaramillo make sure Spanish-speakers in North Carolina have...
Cameron Oglesby on Collecting Community Stories
Listen to environmental journalist Cameron Oglesby discuss how highlighting Black joy and centering community narratives in her writing drives action....
Lyndsey Gilpin and Tajah McQueen on Empowering Community Reporters
Hear what spurred the founding of Southerly, an online publication focused on environmental justice, and how it evolved from more traditional reportin...
Season 6 Trailer: Meet Journalists Reimagining Environmental News
As more and more news outlets close, writers, editors, and photographers across the South are reconsidering how communities stay informed. This season...
Season 5 Trailer: How Memphis Beat The Odds To Stop A Pipeline
Hear how a small group of neighbors in southwest Memphis built a coalition strong enough to defeat a crude oil pipeline. And listen for lessons you ca...
Lesson 7: Do It Again
An announcement late on the Friday of a holiday weekend is a classic move. And in the case of the Byhalia Pipeline it is an end so abrupt many don’t b...
Lesson 6: Hold On
With a federal permit approved and state officials supporting the project, in the spring of 2021 the Byhalia Pipeline has momentum on its side. But op...
Lesson 5: Embrace Your Allies
As aquifer advocates and the residents of southwest Memphis in the path of the pipeline began looking for help pushing back against Byhalia’s plans, t...
Lesson 4: Call 'Em Out
While pipeline developers deploy common tactics to secure support, like spreading donations around the community, organizers look for allies among the...
Lesson 3: Dig In
All of Memphis drinks from a world-class underground source, known as the Memphis Sand Aquifer. The realization that the Byhalia Connection crude oil...
Lesson 2: Raise a Ruckus
It was a throw away line by an out of town pipeline representative but it struck a nerve and came to define much of the resistance to the Byhalia Pipe...
Lesson 1: Nobody Asks
This is Boxtown, a neighborhood in southwest Memphis founded by formerly enslaved people who put down deep roots and residents who cherish their ties...
Brenda Mallory: Federal Action on Environmental Justice
Brenda Mallory, former Director of Regulatory Policy at SELC, sat down with us in December 2020 before joining the Biden administration as Chair of th...
Chandra Taylor: The Impact of Everyday Environmentalists
Chandra Taylor is the leader of SELC's Environmental Justice Initiative. Her ongoing work in North Carolina includes cleanups at contaminated industri...
Catherine Coleman Flowers: When Listening Becomes Activism
Catherine Coleman Flowers was recently named to the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. A 2020 MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, her e...
Heather McTeer Toney: Wrapping Communities in Climate Justice
Heather McTeer Toney stumbled into environmental justice work as the Mayor of Greenville, Mississippi. After moving on as EPA administrator and now as...
New Season Coming Earth Day, April 22
The latest season of Broken Ground, featuring women in the South on the frontlines of fighting for environmental justice, launches this Earth Day, Thu...
Uprooted
Find out what we learned about sea level rise in the South. Who will be hit the hardest? What can we do? How can we navigate a path forward?
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Uncharted Territory
In Norfolk, Virginia scientists battling sea level rise enlist residents to help collect data that could help the city better understand its rising ti...
Progress for Who?
In Charleston, South Carolina and its suburbs questions of environmental justice and wetland protections arise as development encroaches.
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Flood City
In Norfolk, Virginia homeowners like Karen Speights are struggling with the hard decision of staying put in rising waters or finding a way to start ov...
Breaking Point
With waters rising in Charleston, South Carolina we explore what, if any, breaking point there is for people living and working in this city. And we t...
Gardening Tidewaters
Norfolk, Virginia's waters are rising fast, and its land is sinking. The city's plans to meet this climate change challenge could be a blueprint for o...
Earl Swift: Watching Waters Rise
Earl Swift is author of Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island. He talks about the slow disappearance of this unique...
Margaret Renkl: Backyard Environmentalism
Author and New York Times contributing opinion writer Margaret Renkl talks about her book Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss. Renkl's...
Dr. Robert Bullard: Environmental Justice Is Equal Justice
Dr. Robert Bullard, widely considered the father of environmental justice, talks about the inequality of pollution and climate change.
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Drew Lanham: Call of the Rural South
Author and wildlife biologist Drew Lanham talks about his book, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature. Lanham discusses h...
Riding the Solar Coaster
Solar energy is growing by leaps and bounds in the Southeast and becoming a way for schools to save money. In this episode, we visit two Virginia sch...
Demand for Power
An elderly couple steps up to defend their farm and neighbors when pipeline developers won’t back down from a risky, environmentally damaging project...
The Real Housewives of Coal Ash
When two North Carolina women received letters from state officials that their water wasn’t safe to drink due to coal ash pollution, they fought it al...