This week in Law in Rural America we’re thinking about rural communities and the environment. For those following along, here we go! #RuralLaw 1/
First up is a piece from Caitlin Lewis, which outlines the poor living conditions of rural Latinx communities along the US/Texas border in “Texas Colonias: Injustice by Definition” available here: lawpublications.barry.edu/cgi/viewconten… 2/
You can check out one of the organizations working to combat those poor living conditions in rural colonias called Proyecto Azteca, here: proyectoazteca.org 3/
The second piece we read was from @lisareneepruitt and Linda Sobczynski, “Protecting people, protecting places: What environmental litigation conceals and reveals about rurality” (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…) 4/
One of my @UMichLaw students has a really nice twitter thread focusing on these first two articles. Go check out @SophieKarpf’s thread!!! 🙌🏻 5/
We read two other articles as well, including @camillepannu’s “Bridging the Safe Drinking Water Gap for California’s Rural Poor,” available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… 6/
And we also read Lloyd Carter’s “Reaping Riches in a Wretched Region” also about California water access, and specifically the history of the Westlands.(digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/gguelj/vol3/is…) 7/
Both Carter and Pannu discuss California water issues. Here’s a follow up to Carter’s narrative about the Westlands from Bettina Boxall and the @latimes latimes.com/environment/st… 8/
For those here for more journalism on rural communities and environmental justice, check out: Jose A. Del Real (@nytimes), “They Grow the Nation’s Food, but They Can’t Drink the Water,” nytimes.com/2019/05/21/us/… 9/
Sacoby Wilson (Pacific Standard Magazine), “How Litigation Has Become Rural America’s Best Bet to Curb Farm Pollution,” psmag.com/environment/ca… 10/
Keith Matheny (Detroit Free Press), “Michigan’s Worst “‘Environmental Injustice’ Areas ID’d,” freep.com/story/news/loc… 11/
and Megan Mayhew Bergman (@guardian), “‘They chose us because we were rural and poor’: when environmental racism and climate change collide,” theguardian.com/environment/20… /12
Have thoughts or questions? Ask @SophieKarpf! 13/13
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