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Ariel Wittenberg, E&E News reporter
When the Trump administration unveiled a new definition last week for wetlands and waterways that get Clean Water Act protection, American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall was quick with praise.
The social justice protests sweeping the country have forced mainstream environmental groups to confront their largely white staffs, a history of tensions with people of color, and, in some cases, racist and anti-immigrant pasts.
By Jeremy P. Jacobs, Nick Sobczyk and Timothy Cama in Greenwire
Gov. Roy Cooper had barely finished talking about the need to make North Carolina a clean energy state when a group held up signs and started chanting, "Act, act, act."
By Kristi E. Swartz in Energywire
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The social justice protests sweeping the country have forced mainstream environmental groups to confront their largely white staffs, a history of tensions with people of color, and, in some cases, racist and anti-immigrant pasts.
By Jeremy P. Jacobs, Nick Sobczyk and Timothy Cama in Greenwire
Gov. Roy Cooper had barely finished talking about the need to make North Carolina a clean energy state when a group held up signs and started chanting, "Act, act, act."
By Kristi E. Swartz in Energywire