Jessica Kutz

Gender, climate and sustainability reporter

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Just last year, Carletta Davis had the ear of the White House.

In July 2024, she traveled from her hometown of Prichard, Alabama, to Washington, D.C., to attend the Biden administration’s first environmental justice summit.

It was a celebration of the nearly four years of work by the administration to propel forward on a federal level the effort to ensure everyone has a clean and healthy environment. It’s a grassroots movement that, across the country, has often been led by women of color. For local environmental justice leaders like Davis, being invited to the White House after years of advocating for her hometown made it feel like her work and her community were being taken

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