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Podcast: Threshold
Episode: Conversations | 5 | Peggy Shepard
Description: How does your zip code affect your life expectancy? The impacts of climate change, toxic water, and dirty air aren’t evenly distributed. Low income and communities of color bear the brunt of these impacts. Today, we dive into conversation with Peggy Shepard, a pioneer of the environmental justice movement who has worked for more than three decades to shine a light on the ways damage to the natural world intersects with issues of race and class.She co-founded WE ACT for Environmental Justice, a community organization based in New York City with the...