Broken Ground

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The Broken Ground podcast digs up environmental stories in the South, and introduces you to the people at the heart of them. It's sponsored by the Southern Environmental Law Center.

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Broken Ground season two features one-on-one interviews with four of the South's most outstanding environmental writers.

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6 Pieces

The people living and working in the cities of Charleston, South Carolina and Norfolk, Virginia are grappling with the ever-rising waters. Listen to their challenges and solutions as they tackle the fallout of climate change.

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4 Pieces

In this season of Broken Ground, we talk with women on the frontlines of the fight for environmental justice in the South.

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In season 5 of Broken Ground, we uncover the story of how a Black community in southwest Memphis beat the odds and defeated a crude oil pipeline.


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Caption: Attorney Scott Crosby of Burch, Porter & Johnson
One landowner refuses to sell to the pipeline company, and soon receives pro bono legal help. Meanwhile, MCAP learns that allies aren't always who ...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 31:38
Caption: Producers interview Sarah Houston, Executive Director of Protect Our Aquifer (on left)
Pipeline activists dig in and discover that the Byhalia crude oil pipeline also threatens a precious 'diamond in the rough' - the Memphis Sands aq...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 30:26
Caption: White's Chapel church in Boxtown
"We took, basically, a point of least resistance." It was a throwaway line by an out-of-town pipeline representative trying to explain the company'...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 35:55
Caption: MLK50 reporter Carrington Tatum
Reporter Carrington Tatum arrives in Memphis and begins reporting on the Byhalia pipeline. Meanwhile, MCAP realizes that calling out politicians wo...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:59
Caption: Boxtown residents view archival photos
Residents of Boxtown in southwest Memphis are upset to learn that a high-pressure crude oil pipeline is set to plow through their community.

  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 34:29
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Find out what we learned about sea level rise in the South. Who will be hit the hardest? What can we do? How can we navigate a path forward?

  • Added: Oct 07, 2020
  • Length: 13:40
Caption: Children walking in flood water, Norfolk, VA, Credit: Emily Richardson-Lorente
In Norfolk, Virginia scientists battling sea level rise enlist residents to help collect data that could help the city better understand its rising...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2020
  • Length: 32:34
Caption: Phillips Committee resident Richard Habersham, Credit: Paige Polk
In Charleston, South Carolina and its suburbs questions of environmental justice and wetland protections arise as development encroaches.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2020
  • Length: 33:46
Caption: Karen Speights in front of her Norfolk, VA home, Credit: Emily Richardson-Lorente
In Norfolk, Virginia homeowners like Karen Speights are struggling with the hard decision of staying put in rising waters or finding a way to start...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2020
  • Length: 36:34
Caption: Charleston, SC
With waters rising in Charleston, South Carolina we explore what, if any, breaking point there is for people living and working in this city. And w...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:56