Gilda Di Carli

1/ “They're killing people by doing this.” In 2008, a sugarcane fire in Palm Beach County, FL, left six elementary school students hospitalized. Two weeks later the school board renewed a lease of its land to U.S. Sugar. grist.org/justice/the-gl…

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Special thanks to the entire team, including @gdicarli @FrancescaToday @rakshitasaluja and @JPaskin for yet another great Pay Check season. + @mckdekuyper and @margaretsuther for getting people to pay attention to us. And to @balbi_danielle for her work on this last ep.

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Excellent reporting by @luluramadan and beautiful visualizations on sugar cane burning in South Florida. Please read this important story! bit.ly/2SY0hce @palmbeachpost @propublica

🧵To harvest more than half of America’s cane sugar, multibillion-dollar companies set fire to fields in Florida. For years, residents have wondered: Is the air safe to breathe? We spent a year investigating that question. This is the real cost of sugar… black-snow.palmbeachpost.com

@propublica @tihuachang Gilda Di Carli @gdicarli wrote a good article about this for @grist last year - twitter.com/grist/status/1…

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Sugar companies burn away the plant’s leafy outer stalk, which sends plumes of smoke and ash into mostly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods on the northern edge of the Florida Everglades. Now, those communities will have a harder time suing. propub.li/3aWWWjq

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@SierraClub @StopSugarBurn Thank you for sharing this article!

Pollution from Big Sugar’s toxic/outdated practice of pre-harvest sugar field burning disproportionately impacts low-income Black and Brown communities 40 miles away from Mar-a-Lago. Our @StopSugarBurn campaign is fighting to end this injustice. sc.org/2H1mzDN

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@earthisland @grist @typeinvestigate Thank you so much for sharing!!

Students in Florida, a short drive from Mar-a-Lago, continue to be impacted terribly by the ongoing burning of sugarcane fields near schools. A yearlong investigation by @gdicarli @grist with @typeinvestigate exposes the environmental injustice. bit.ly/3530LSd