Fighting for My Community

An activist describes their arrest during a protest at the Supreme Court to oppose the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). The author argues that the pipeline would disproportionately harm African American, Indigenous, and low-income communities, generate 67 million metric tons of global warming pollution annually, and lock the region into 30 years of fracked gas use.

• The Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) is described as an environmental and human rights disaster that disproportionately impacts African American, Indigenous, and low-income communities.
• If constructed, the ACP would produce over 67 million metric tons of global warming pollution every year, which is equivalent to the emissions of 20 coal plants.
• The pipeline project would affect 30,000 Native peoples along its proposed route and involves the construction of a fracked gas compressor station in Union Hill, a historically and culturally significant African American community in Virginia.
• The development of this fossil fuel infrastructure would commit the region to 30 years of fracked gas usage, thereby hindering the transition to renewable energy.

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 report |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

@techreport{fox2020fighting, author = {Fox, Audrey}, title = {{Fighting for My Community}}, institution = {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} }