African American

First of all Big Polluter use underserved communities to get their infrastructure approved because they know they can’t do it in rich white communities, NIMBY factor (“not in my back yard”).

For decades, these communities take the brunt of so many negative health and economic outcomes and are easily run over politically. Like so many polluters, they externalize their harm and don’t have to face the consequences or the costs they put onto these communities.

But what is really glaring is reverend Al needs to learn what the hell methane is and is doing to our climate. Here in California, methane has finally been targeted as the serious problem it is. We have targeted getting food and other organic material out of landfill. Because of these slowly rotting materials going anaerobic, NASA has Identified Landfills are one of the biggest emitters of methane. (Livestock feeding operations, factory farms, are also a major contributor to methane emissions.)

In fact, methane in the short term, meaning a few decades, is 84 times more potent than carbon emissions. While landfills do tap into that methane gas for energy, open air sites capture only a fraction of what is emitting.

Anaerobic digestion, is another way to deal with the methane from food. And With California mandates to get food out of landfill, these facilities need to get built. And where are they most likely going to get built? Certainly not in rich white areas that will raise holy hell and cause a lot of money to fight.

So instead, they put their money into manipulation tactics like this post indicates. Why is Sharpton letting the fox in the hen house when the fox has proven for decades to not to have good intentions and abuse the community’s of which they operate?