Press
Our frontline leaders have brought national and international visibility to their communities. Their struggles and successes have been reported by the BBC, The Guardian, The New York Times, MSNBC, Bloomberg News, and U.S. News & World Report. Below is a list of media coverage highlighting the work of A2.
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“Arizona Town Fears Becoming a Clean Energy Sacrifice Zone”
Earth Island Journal
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“9 Extreme Weather Survivors Share the Tools That Helped Them Get Through Disaster”
Wirecutter
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“Climate Groups Get a Reprieve From Trump’s Rumored Earth Day Massacre”
Mother Jones
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“State-Based Organizing Centers Come Together For Environmental Justice”
The Chief Organizer Blog
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“Stories Of Resilience From Coastal Mississippi And Alabama”
Resource Rural
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“Government Science Data May Soon Be Hidden. They’re Racing to Copy It.”
New York Times
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“Climate Change, Real Estate, and Adaptation: Why Flood Disclosure Matters with NRDC”
America Adapts
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“Threatened by Toxics, Some Communities Look for a Buy-Out: But will Trump’s FEMA Prevent it?”
Resilience
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“‘Yes to Everything’?”
Earth Island Journal
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“These are Everyday People Impacted by Environmental Abuse. They are Saying, We’ve Had Enough”
Walton Family Foundation
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“Helene spotlights Harris and Trump differences on disaster relief”
Context News
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“South Carolina Is Considered a Model for ‘Managed Retreat’ From Coastal Areas Threatened by Climate Change”
Inside Climate News
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“The U.S. Tested Nukes on Its Own People. It’s Time to Apologize and Pay”
CounterPunch
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“Opinion | Pascagoula Community Uses Federal Grant to Advocate for More Livable Environment”
Mississippi Free Press
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“Op-ed: For environmental groups, Biden’s LNG decision cause for celebration – and caution”
The Daily Climate
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“Atlanta Activist Tells Her Neighbors: “You Are Your Environment!””
Island Press
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“In South Dakota’s Black Hills, A Lithium Boom Promises More of the Same from Mining Industry”
Earth Island Journal
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“How a Georgia Woman Waded Through Bureaucracy to Help Her Flooded Town”
US News
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“Thousands of U.S. homes have flooded over and over again. Here’s where”
Washington Post
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“Flooding drives millions to move as climate migration patterns emerge”
AP News
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“Homeowners Be Aware Podcast: What Can We Do to Prevent Disasters, with Harriet Festing”
Buzz Sprout
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“La Playa de Ponce struggles to stay afloat”
ES Noticia PR
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“3 years after Hurricane Sally, Pensacola is still struggling to rebuild”
ABC News
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“How ‘Unbuilding’ Can Help Weather Climate Disasters”
US News
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“Supporting frontline flood communities in California, featuring the Anthropocene Alliance”
Water Foundation
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“On Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, a Local Advocate Works to Protect Underserved Communities and Wetlands”
Pew Trusts
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“Rebecca Jim Fights to Reduce the Impact of Flooding, Pollution on Her City and Local Tribes”
Pew Trusts
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“How One Woman Became the Voice for Her Neighborhood’s Flood Survivors”
Pew Trusts
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“Frontline 360° Is Helping Grassroots Groups Land Federal Dollars — and Building a Movement”
Inside Philanthropy
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“FEMA’s failure to account for climate change leaves BIPOC communities on the brink of disaster”
Prism Reports
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“Inclusive Insurance for Climate-Related Disasters”
Mississippi Free Press
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“Gulfport Highway Project Endangers Historic Black Communities, Environment”
Mississippi Free Press
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“NFWF, NOAA announce record $136 million for coastal resilience”
NFWF Organization
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“‘It’s like a death:’ What it’s like to leave one flood-prone community”
The Washington Post
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“Uprooted: As the Climate Crisis Forces U.S. Residents to Relocate, a New Conversation Emerges”
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
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“Adapting to Chronic Flooding: Survivors’ Stories and Actions they Take!”
America Adapts Podcast by Doug Parsons
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“Drowning in dirt: How homebuilders are making floods worse”
E&E News by POLITICO
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“I Would Have Never Bought This Home if I Knew It Flooded”
New York Times Opinion
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“Flood survivors waiting years for help from FEMA”
ABC Action News
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“Lessons from New York: What makes a community turn against climate adaptation?”
Grist
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“Flood survivors urge Congress to change inadequate insurance”
Grist
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“Everything is at risk’: flood survivors urge Congress to change inadequate insurance”
The Guardian
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“‘We need giant steps’: Experts on impacts of extreme rainfall, drought”
USA Today
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“Communities consider ‘managed retreat’ from climate change”
AP News
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“Stories from those on the frontlines of sea level rise”
Science Friday
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“When Climate Change Comes to Your Doorstep.”
New York Times
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“National coalition of community groups fights for flooding solutions.”
Yale Climate Connections
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“Hardship binds flood survivors: ‘All we have is each other’”
E&E News
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“Resilience Matters: Reimagining the Future in a Tumultuous Year”
Island Press
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“McMaster to sign bill establishing new office for chief resiliency officer on flooding”
WMBF News
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“OPINION: Monster hurricanes are now inevitable – but flooding is not”
Thompson Reuters Foundation News
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“Major Real Estate Website Now Shows Flood Risk. Should They All?”
NPR
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“How to heal emotional wounds after disaster”
The Center for Public Integrity
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“Disasters are driving a mental health crisis”
The Center for Public Integrity
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“Climate justice in frontline communities: Here’s how to (really) help”
The Hill
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“Biden vs. Sanders: The Next Leg of the Democratic Race”
New York Times
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“Draining the Reservoir Can Mitigate Flooding, But Some Residents Object”
Bloomberg News
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“Disaster survivors plead with government for insurance against ferocious storms and rising seas”
The Hill
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“Outside the Spotlight, Communities around the Nation Seek to Rebound from Climate-Related Disasters”
The Climate Mobilization
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“Surging Waters: Science Empowering Communities in the Face of Flooding”
AGU
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“1,300+ grassroots advocates attend virtual climate conference; 300+ lobby meetings take place this week”
Climate Lobby News
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“Alliance of Flood Survivors Launch Nationwide Campaign of Community Action Called “United Flooded States of America””
The Insider
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“Women Are Fighting Flooding Crisis in the US”
Human Rights Watch
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“Stop building on floodplains, say flood-hit U.S. families”
Yahoo News
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“Stop Building in Floodplains”
The Progressive
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“Flooding in the Chicago area has been so bad in the past decade that only places ravaged by hurricanes sustain more damage”
Chicago Tribune
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“What 500,000 Americans hit by floods can teach us about fighting climate change”
The Guardian
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“Across the U.S., flood survivors are growing in number — and they aren’t just seeking restitution, but answers”
Ensia
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“Once derided, ways of adapting to climate change are gaining steam”
National Geographic
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“The Year That Was and Wasn’t”
The Morning News
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“Fill, Build and Flood: Dangerous Development in Flood-Prone Areas”
US News & World Report
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