Newark queer and trans organizers link environmental injustice, redlining, and racism

Newark queer and trans organizers link environmental injustice, redlining, and racism

On a hot spring day in March, diesel trucks rumbled by, puffing black smoke that rippled hot over people’s heads as they gathered in Newark, New Jersey, for a press conference in front of the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission (PVSC). The sewerage plant’s putrid fumes joined with the exhaust of two neighborhood power plants and a garbage incinerator, producing a nose-pinching smell that never seemed to clear.  Determined activists, politicians, …