Sanitation
This article is from Headway, an initiative from The New York Times exploring the world’s challenges through the lens of progress. Headway looks for promising solutions, notable experiments and lessons from what has been tried. Jack Walker is a union man. He drives a garbage truck in Memphis, where his route can take him barreling […]
The new front in America’s civil rights struggle is forming on familiar battlegrounds in Alabama’s Black Belt, and this time the legal fight is not over the right to vote, to attend desegregated classrooms or to survive in overcrowded prisons. This time, the federal government has raised a difficult question and threatened Alabama with costly […]
United States Mission to the United NationsOffice of Press and Public DiplomacyFor Immediate ReleaseMarch 22, 2023 FACT SHEET: United States Announces $49 Billion in Commitments to Global Water Security and Sanitation Biden-Harris Administration is Driving a Once-in-A-Generation Commitment to Equitable, Climate-Resilient Water and Sanitation and Home and Abroad Today, on World Water Day, the Biden-Harris […]
March 21, 2023 An article published online March 14 by The Lancet Global Health explores what one researcher calls “the unfinished business of water and sanitation in rich countries.” Dr. Joe Brown The review was led by Joe Brown, PhD, PE, associate professor of environmental sciences and engineering at the UNC . . .
LOWNDES COUNTY, AL – The Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice and NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council), represented by Southern Poverty Law Center, today filed a complaint under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act against the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) and the State of Alabama for discrimination in how the state […]
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