CBS News journalist and author Jonathan Vigliotti joins Broken Ground host Leanna First-Arai to dig into his on-the-ground coverage of breaking climate stories across rural America, particularly in the South. Vigliotti translated this experience into the book Before It's Gone: Stories From the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small Town America, pu…

Photographer Cornell Watson's images recognize the camera can be a tool for connection, and action. Whether its pollution from hog farms, efforts to gut Black neighborhoods, or racism at the state’s flagship university, Watson's lens points us to see what so many choose to ignore. Support the Show.

Whether its natural disasters or shifting political winds, Victoria Bouloubasis and Paola Jaramillo make sure Spanish-speakers in North Carolina have access to it. Ensuring that access fuels their work as a reporter and editor, respectively, at Enlace Latino NC. The outlet uses traditional journalism, podcasts, WhatsApp, social media and comics to …

Listen to environmental journalist Cameron Oglesby discuss how highlighting Black joy and centering community narratives in her writing drives action. Support the Show.By Southern Environmental Law Center

Hear what spurred the founding of Southerly, an online publication focused on environmental justice, and how it evolved from more traditional reporting to an outlet focused on putting reporters’ tools in community hands. Support the Show.By Southern Environmental Law Center

As more and more news outlets close, writers, editors, and photographers across the South are reconsidering how communities stay informed. This season host Leanna First-Arai talks with the new storytellers of the South committed to keeping environmental information in communities' hands. Support the Show.…

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 can take back to your own community. Join us this season as we head to Boxtown, Tennessee to uncover the stories behind how this community and its allies secured a victory once thought impossible throug…

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 believe it. But it’s true. What quickly becomes apparent is that, while Memphis has won this battle, the war against environmental racism and the systems that support it is far from over. From coal ash…

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 opponents aren’t giving up as they bring national attention to the project and turn to local elected officials for help, all while still in court questioning a private oil company’s right to take proper…

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, they quickly learned not to assume who would join their cause. From city councilpeople and county commissioners to attorneys and media outlets, the first people to step up weren’t always who they expec…

While pipeline developers deploy common tactics to secure support, like spreading donations around the community, organizers look for allies among their elected officials. Reporter Carrington Tatum also starts covering the story and amplifying voices going unheard. Many of those voices belong to Black landowners getting legal notices that pipeline …

All of Memphis drinks from a world-class underground source, known as the Memphis Sand Aquifer. The realization that the Byhalia Connection crude oil pipeline, planned for southwest Memphis, could endanger they city's water draws new allies into the pipeline fight. Soon, environmentalists like Ward Archer and Sarah Houston of Protect Our Aquifer ar…

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 Pipeline. In this episode hear the origin story of the phrase that rang throughout the fight: “the point of least resistance.” Intended as an engineering answer to a question about the pipeline route, it …

This is Boxtown, a neighborhood in southwest Memphis founded by formerly enslaved people who put down deep roots and residents who cherish their ties to this land. It’s also a neighborhood that’s seen decades of government neglect, while more and more polluting industries moved into the area. So, when the community first heard about plans for a cru…

Brenda Mallory, former Director of Regulatory Policy at SELC, sat down with us in December 2020 before joining the Biden administration as Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and reflected on how the federal government can engage a broad coalition to embed environmental justice principles across the country. Support the Show.…

Chandra Taylor is the leader of SELC's Environmental Justice Initiative. Her ongoing work in North Carolina includes cleanups at contaminated industrial sites and an end to unchecked water pollution in Black communities. "It's not going to be just conservationists who turn the tide on global climate change. It's going to take a lot of people. It's …

Catherine Coleman Flowers was recently named to the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. A 2020 MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, her environmental health research brought to light the failing wastewater infrastructure in rural parts of the South. She spoke with Broken Ground about how systemic racism and classism have played a large…

Heather McTeer Toney stumbled into environmental justice work as the Mayor of Greenville, Mississippi. After moving on as EPA administrator and now as a Senior Adviser at Mom’s Clean Air Force, Toney talks about how to wrap climate justice around social justice and how her faith is inextricably woven into her work fighting climate change. Support t…

The latest season of Broken Ground, featuring women in the South on the frontlines of fighting for environmental justice, launches this Earth Day, Thursday, April 22. Support the Show.By Southern Environmental Law Center

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? Support the Show.By Southern Environmental Law Center

In Norfolk, Virginia scientists battling sea level rise enlist residents to help collect data that could help the city better understand its rising tides and flooding problems. Support the Show.

In Charleston, South Carolina and its suburbs questions of environmental justice and wetland protections arise as development encroaches. Support the Show.

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 over. Meanwhile, the city is hoping it can buy people time. Support the Show.

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 talk to city officials about making the big decisions of what, and what not, to build when trying to keep a flooding city livable. Support the Show.

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 other coastal communities. Among other plans, Norfolk has set it sights on revamping its aging public housing complexes. We'll talk to folks living in one of these communities about what adaptation wil…

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 Virginia island to climate change. Support the Show.By Southern Environmental Law Center

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 essays reflect on the intersection of family life, grief and her natural surroundings. Support the Show.

Dr. Robert Bullard, widely considered the father of environmental justice, talks about the inequality of pollution and climate change. Support the Show.By Southern Environmental Law Center

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 his love of birds, his South Carolina homeplace, and reconciling the South’s legacy of hate with its beauty. Support the Show.By Southern Environmental Law Center

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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 schools to better understand the key role policies play in whether schools can go solar. Support the Show.By Southern Environmental Law Center

An elderly couple steps up to defend their farm and neighbors when pipeline developers won’t back down from a risky, environmentally damaging project that – after years of delay – is now obsolete. Support the Show.By Southern Environmental Law Center

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 all the way to the state house. Support the Show.By Southern Environmental Law Center

The 2008 Kingston, Tennessee coal ash spill was disastrous at the time, but what came a decade later would reveal the full devastation of the tragedy. Support the Show.By Southern Environmental Law Center

Broken Ground is a new podcast from the Southern Environmental Law Center digging up environmental stories in the South. Support the Show.By Southern Environmental Law Center

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Phone interview with Jesuit NOLA new Head Coach Saban Sellers & some discussion on MLL's season to the mid-way point.By Third Coast Lacrosse Podio

Phone interviews with Julie Castner & CJ Seling as well as Utah Men's Lacrosse going D1 & what that implies for the Gulf SouthBy Third Coast Lacrosse Podio

News & Updates from the last month of lacrosseBy Third Coast Lacrosse Podio

Phone interviews with 5 of the 7 Third Coast area teams represented out at the MCLA National Tournament.By Third Coast Lacrosse Podio

LSA Tourney Recap, SELC & LSA MCLA Tourney Seeding, LHSLL State Championships, & Coach Keith Schneider InterviewBy Third Coast Lacrosse Podio

Overview of the 1st Round of the LSA playoffs, the entire SELC playoffs & a phone interview with youth coach Garrett Purcell with Gulf Breeze Lacrosse.By Third Coast Lacrosse Podio

Discussion on the updated ncaa lacrosse recruiting rules + phones interviews with Arky mlax Coach Jenkins & TTU wlax President PlantierBy Third Coast Lacrosse Podio

LSA + SELC Week of April 9th discussionBy Third Coast Lacrosse Podio

Phone interview with Florida Southern University …By Third Coast Lacrosse Podio

LSA & SELC Week of Discussion, Interviews with ULL men's lacrosse Head Coach Keith Schneider & UTD men's lacrosse Head Coach Eric Ruppel, as well as an up to date round of the NCAA mlax season.By Third Coast Lacrosse Podio

Introduction of Cliff White to the Third Coast Lacrosse Team, LSA +SELC discussion, & phone interview with Mark Purcell. Turbo Tornado by Admiral Bob (c) copyright 2016 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. dig.ccmixter.org/files/admiralbob77/54272 Ft: Blue Wave TheoryBy Third Coast Lacrosse Podio

Our overview of the 2017 Spring NCAA & WCLA season along with a phone interview with Taylor Ketcham of Soul Lacrosse. Background music courtesy of: Average Funk Band by texasradiofish (c) copyright 2016 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. dig.ccmixter.org/files/texasradiofish/53814 Ft: Admiral Bob…

Phone interview with the head coach of the LSU men's lacrosse club team.By Third Coast Lacrosse Podio

Episode 1 is an overview of Third Coast Lacrosse as a whole & a look into the Georgia Swarm NLL season + a preview into the NCAA men's lacrosse season for Divisions 1, 2, & 3.By Third Coast Lacrosse Podio