Summer Journalism Fellow Maryam Gamar analyzes the court ordering of the shutdown of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), which took place in July 2020. She points out how instances of environmental racism, such as DAPL’s construction across the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, are subjecting Native American and other BIPOC communities to deadly health consequences. In particular, Gamar argues that environmental racism includes a power imbalance between corporations and communities of color that puts these communities at a disadvantage and keeps them there.

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