Tag: The State We’re In

  • Environmental justice: Clean and green in every community

    Environmental justice: Clean and green in every community

    By Michele S. Byers Growing up in Camden, Olivia Carpenter Glenn suffered from asthma and allergies. She wasn’t alone: many of her family members, friends and neighbors also had respiratory ailments, a result of breathing the polluted air in their industrial city. Respiratory health issues were so common in Camden that Olivia gave them little…