In this interview, Jacqui Patterson speaks about her work fighting environmental racism as Director of NAACP’s Environmental and Climate Justice Program. She is leading an investigation that aims to show this disproportionate health impacts of industrial pollution on low-income communities and communities of color. For example, 68% of African Americans live within 30 miles of a coal-fired power plant and residents of Stokes County, North Carolina, in particular, suffer severe nerve damage and cancer risk from coal ash pollution. Photo credit: RT America
