SELC’s Chandra Taylor-Sawyer on environmental justice in the South

Chandra Taylor-Sawyer is a senior attorney in our Chapel Hill office and leader of our Environmental Justice Initiative.

As we work to shine a spotlight on environmental injustice and what is being done about it throughout the region, Chandra encourages people to make decisions every day to right wrongs of the past and work with Black, Latino, and Indigenous partners to conserve natural resources and fight polluting projects. FOR MORE

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Celebrating our 2022 Reed Environmental Writing Award winners, Catherine Coleman Flowers and Alexis Okeowo

Two writers who have brought to light a healthcare calamity unfolding in rural Alabama as a result of neglected sewage infrastructure won SELC’s 2022 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Awards. An event to celebrate the winners will be presented during the Virginia Festival of the Book on March 18. FOR MORE

Photo Credit: Jean Cassidy – Micaville area of Western North Carolina