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Michelle Lanier: What the Land Witnessed

Saison 8 · Épisode 2

jeudi 30 octobre 2025 • Durée 28:18

A “keeper of memory” and Director of the North Carolina Division of State Historic Sites, Michelle Lanier has built a career on understanding layers of history underlying our Southern landscapes, not just battlefields and burial grounds, but native pine forests as well. Prized for their lumber and ‘bled’ for their multipurpose pine gum, Longleaf pines were exploited, much as the enslaved and indentured laborers forced to harvest them were. Today, though few Longleaf pines remain, echoes of this exploitation endure in the Black Southern communities now battling the biomass industry.

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Latria Graham: The Roots of Environmental Injustices

Saison 8 · Épisode 1

jeudi 16 octobre 2025 • Durée 29:51

Writer Latria Graham helps us unearth the surprising ways in which long-ago plantations and modern environmental injustices are intertwined in the South. From some of the earliest Freedmen’s communities built on frequently flooded land, to contemporary Black neighborhoods now hemmed in by polluting industries, we map the many ways that racist systems codified during plantation slavery still dictate who thrives in the South today – who breathes clean air, who owns land, who is most impacted by climate change. A fifth generation South Carolinian, Latria also shares her family’s own experience of flooding and Black land loss.

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Season 8: Plantations to Pollution

Saison 8

jeudi 9 octobre 2025 • Durée 00:30

On a map, you can often spot pollution sources like a power plant, a highway, or a factory. But why were these things built where they are, and who lives next door? Answering those questions reveals a surprising truth: it’s often a short distance from yesterday’s plantations to today’s pollution. In this season of Broken Ground, we’ll journey through history, from a remote turpentine camp where enslaved laborers once toiled, through a bustling “Black Wall Street” where freed men and women once thrived, to the last green stretch of ‘Cancer Alley’ in Louisiana, where twin sisters Jo and Joy Banner are fighting for justice for descendants of the enslaved. Together, these stories uncover how the legacy of slavery connects to the environmental injustices we are facing today. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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Rural Justice: The Power of Coalitions

Saison 7 · Épisode 6

jeudi 19 décembre 2024 • Durée 14:03

This season of Broken Ground we spend time in the rural South with the people who call it home. Often celebrated for the quiet life close to nature, and a region that defines many perceptions of the South, it’s also a place polluting industries target, betting what they do will be out of sight and out of mind. Sometimes these polluters are even invited to town by local officials eager for economic engines. But in each community we visited, we met small town neighbors who summoned their nerve and rallied together to become a powerful force. Coalitions built small wins into a mighty wave, shifting tides and determining their destiny. Hear their stories this season on Broken Ground.

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The Landfill Next Door

Saison 7 · Épisode 5

mardi 10 décembre 2024 • Durée 34:57

We don’t spend a lot of time thinking about where our trash ends up but, when you live next door to a landfill, you don’t have that luxury. The burning smell of chemicals, the flocks of circling vultures, the constant rumble of truck traffic and the accompanying exhaust are just the most obvious impacts of living near acres of garbage, especially when that garbage isn’t managed properly. Neighbors in rural eastern North Carolina never wanted any of this. They were told, back when plans were first floated to expand the county dump, that they wouldn’t have to worry about a massive future expansion or the arrival of toxic trash. So, when the footprint grew into the largest landfill in North Carolina and there was evidence that dangerous waste was making its way into the community’s water supply, residents took legal action, and made history in the process.

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After the River Rises

Saison 7 · Épisode 4

vendredi 1 novembre 2024 • Durée 40:49

"Inland flooding" was a phrase that often needed explanation. Now all you need to say is "Helene". The storm that ravaged Appalachia was a stark reminder of a phenomenon that’s becoming more and more common – residents living far from the coast watching as their local river jumps its banks and inundates yards, homes, and businesses. For small towns with even smaller budgets, disasters like this can accelerate a community's decline. But in Fair Bluff, North Carolina, town officials have responded to two devastating downtown floods with some innovative ideas and lots of outside help. Now, the town is on a new path, holding a ribbon cutting for its newly-constructed "Uptown", and providing a model for one way to manage the long process of flood recovery. Rebuilding in the wake of a flood takes time, money, creativity, and community. Join us to hear how one town is putting those to good use.

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The Wood Pellet Paradox

Saison 7 · Épisode 3

jeudi 10 octobre 2024 • Durée 34:14

How can a power source that creates more climate warming emissions than coal be called renewable? This is the paradox of wood pellets, a type of biomass being burned at industrial scale to produce electricity overseas. And it’s not just the global climate that’s paying the price for this greenwashing. Pellet producers are fanning out across the southern U.S., razing forests, and wreaking havoc in communities forced to host their polluting facilities. So what happens when one neighborhood decides to stand its ground and push for stronger protections? Meet the Southerners who finally got the pellet industry to listen.

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The Fishers' Right To Know

Saison 7 · Épisode 2

jeudi 19 septembre 2024 • Durée 33:35

Is that fresh-caught fish safe to eat? In too many rivers across the rural South, the answer is a hard 'no.' Failing sewage systems, agricultural runoff, and politically powerful polluters have all contributed to worrisome water quality in some of our most treasured southern waterways. And, too often, state regulators are little help. It begs the question: Do people enjoying that water have a right to know what's in it? The team at Coosa Riverkeeper in Alabama has answered that question with a resounding 'yes.' Listen to learn how they're using every tool in their tacklebox to ensure folks understands the risks, and many rewards, of enjoying Alabama's beautiful and biodiverse waterways.

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The Strip Mine and The Swamp

Saison 7 · Épisode 1

jeudi 5 septembre 2024 • Durée 32:08

To call the Okefenokee swamp a treasure is to undersell just how special this watery world is. Tucked into the rural southeast corner of Georgia, this 438,000-acre swamp is one of the most ecologically intact places in our nation. Its shallow black waters not only provide habitat to a menagerie of flora and fauna, but also contain a massive peat-filled carbon sink – on a planet desperately in need of one. But now a private company with a checkered past is preparing to mine for minerals on the swamp's edge. Will a growing group of Okefenokee advocates be able to stop the mine and preserve the swamp for generations to come?
Photo credit: Joel Caldwell

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Jonathan Vigliotti on Connecting the Climate Dots

Saison 7

jeudi 8 août 2024 • Durée 24:18

CBS News journalist and author Jonathan Vigliotti joins Broken Ground host Leanna First-Arai to dig into his on-the-ground coverage of breaking climate stories across rural America, particularly in the South. Vigliotti translated this experience into the book Before It's Gone: Stories From the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small Town America, published in April 2024.

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