Oil and Gas Job Promises Out of Reach for People of Color
Andrew Craigie Andrew Craigie

Oil and Gas Job Promises Out of Reach for People of Color

There’s an unspoken promise when an industry moves into any community: We will disrupt your lives, but in exchange we will provide good-paying jobs. Except, according to new research shared exclusively with Floodlight, in Louisiana’s majority Black communities in the area known as “Cancer Alley,” because of its high concentration of polluting industries, the majority of jobs go to white workers. Similar disparities occur in minority-dominant communities along Texas’ Gulf Coast, where the majority of workers are white.

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Andrew Craigie Andrew Craigie

Why Canada’s Plastics Ban Is About More Than Litter

Monday’s ban on certain single-use plastics is not just about litter and pollution, shopping bags caught in trees and microplastics floating in the ocean. It’s also about limiting future demand for oil, say academics and researchers.

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