Fighting for My Community

A personal statement from a North Carolinian activist describing their arrest during a protest at the Supreme Court to oppose the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), highlighting the project's environmental impacts and its disproportionate effect on marginalized communities.

• The author and nine other activists were arrested for blocking traffic outside the Supreme Court to protest the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) while the court considered whether the pipeline could cross the Appalachian Trail.
• The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is described as an environmental and human rights disaster that would disproportionately affect low-income, Indigenous, and African American communities, including the 30,000 Native peoples along its proposed path.
• The ACP project includes the construction of a large fracked gas compressor station in Union Hill, Virginia, which is noted as an African American community with significant historical and cultural importance.
• If constructed, the Atlantic Coast Pipeline would produce over 67 million metric tons of global warming pollution annually, which is compared to the emissions of 20 coal plants, and would lock in fracked gas use for 30 years.

APA

Fox, A. (2020). Fighting for My Community. Friends of the Earth. https://foe.org/blog/fighting-for-my-community/

Chicago

Fox, Audrey. Fighting for My Community. Friends of the Earth, 2020. https://foe.org/blog/fighting-for-my-community/.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |last1=Fox |first1=Audrey |title=Fighting for My Community |publisher=Friends of the Earth |date=26 February 2020 |url=https://foe.org/blog/fighting-for-my-community/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{fox2020fighting, author = {Fox, Audrey}, title = {{Fighting for My Community}}, publisher = {Friends of the Earth}, year = {2020}, month = feb, url = {https://foe.org/blog/fighting-for-my-community/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }