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The Margin

WE ARE THE ONLY PLATFORM FOCUSED EXCLUSIVELY ON TELLING STORIES ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE.

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Eroding Indigenous Sovereignty

COMING SOON

How climate change complicates the fight for Tribal Nations to prove who they are.

29.5958° N, 90.7195° W Houma, Louisiana
2024-07-30 09:00:00
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A River of Deception

COMING SOON

Historical documents reveal how Seattle City Light’s dams deprived the Skagit River of fish, impacting the Upper Skagit Tribe’s treaty rights for over a century.

48.6739° N, 121.2461° W Newhalem, WA
2024-07-25 11:00:00
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Rebuilding the Homestead

COMING SOON

How Black Landowners in Eastern North Carolina Are Recovering Generational Wealth Lost to Industry Encroachment

35.8038° N, 76.8283° W Piney Woods, NC
2022-10-25 00:00:00
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To Be A Mother Is To Fight

COMING SOON

Resisting Toxic Air in Los Angeles

34.0522° N, 118.2437° W Los Angeles, CA
2022-10-13 00:00:00
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Bayous, A Refuge At Risk

COMING SOON

How a Decades-long Battle for Federal Recognition May Be the United Houma Nation’s Last Chance at Survival

29.5958° N, 90.7195° W Houma, Louisiana
2022-10-05 00:00:00
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Opening the Gateway

COMING SOON

The Upper Skagit Tribe Fights the City of Seattle to Protect Salmon and their Place of Origin

48.4253° N, 122.2792° W Skagit River, WA
2022-09-28 00:00:00
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We glow in the dark

COMING SOON

A Memphis community demands reparations for unknowingly hosting the toxic waste of war.

35.1495° N, 90.0490° W Memphis, Tennessee
2022-09-21 00:00:00
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  • Our data

    The Margin sources reliable data to surface environmental injustices, to ground conversations in a common set of facts, and provide the basis for action.

  • Who we are

    The Margin is a non-profit publication and an independent project at Counterstream Media that centers the people and places most affected by environmental injustice in the United States. Our stories expose the ongoing cycle of unjust actions that intentionally push the poor and people of color to the edge of society while driving our planet to the brink of collapse.

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