BLACK SNOW: Big Sugar’s Burning Problem
Investigating how regulators have allowed the sugar industry to burn crops at the expense of poor communities of color in Florida’s heartland.
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The Smoke Comes Every Year. Sugar Companies Say the Air Is Safe.
To harvest more than half of America’s cane sugar, billion-dollar companies set fire to fields, a money-saving practice that’s being banned by other countries. Some residents say they struggle to breathe, so we started tracking air quality.
by Lulu Ramadan, The Palm Beach Post, and Ash Ngu and Maya Miller, ProPublica
July 8, 2021, 6 a.m. EDT