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This week in Law in Rural America we’re thinking about rural communities and the environment. For those following along, here we go! #RuralLaw 1/
First up is a piece from Caitlin Lewis, which outlines the poor living conditions of rural Latinx communities along the US/Texas border in “Texas Colonias: Injustice by Definition” available here: https://lawpublications.barry.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1037&context=ejejj 2/
You can check out one of the organizations working to combat those poor living conditions in rural colonias called Proyecto Azteca, here: https://www.proyectoazteca.org 3/
The second piece we read was from @lisareneepruitt and Linda Sobczynski, “Protecting people, protecting places: What environmental litigation conceals and reveals about rurality” ( https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2748304) 4/
One of my @umichlaw students has a really nice twitter thread focusing on these first two articles. Go check out @sophiekarpf’s thread!!! 
https://twitter.com/sophiekarpf/status/1247406989585584128?s=20 5/
https://twitter.com/sophiekarpf/status/1247406989585584128?s=20 5/
We read two other articles as well, including @camillepannu’s “Bridging the Safe Drinking Water Gap for California’s Rural Poor,” available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3197272 6/
And we also read Lloyd Carter’s “Reaping Riches in a Wretched Region” also about California water access, and specifically the history of the Westlands.( https://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/gguelj/vol3/iss1/3/) 7/
Both Carter and Pannu discuss California water issues. Here’s a follow up to Carter’s narrative about the Westlands from Bettina Boxall and the @LATimes https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-02-28/westlands-water-district-gets-permanent-u-s-contract-for-massive-irrigation-deliveries 8/
For those here for more journalism on rural communities and environmental justice, check out: Jose A. Del Real ( @nytimes), “They Grow the Nation’s Food, but They Can’t Drink the Water,” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/21/us/california-central-valley-tainted-water.html 9/
Sacoby Wilson (Pacific Standard Magazine), “How Litigation Has Become Rural America’s Best Bet to Curb Farm Pollution,” https://psmag.com/environment/can-litigation-reduce-agricultural-pollution 10/
Keith Matheny (Detroit Free Press), “Michigan’s Worst “‘Environmental Injustice’ Areas ID’d,” https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/07/25/michigan-environmental-injustice-pollution/1829162001/ 11/
and Megan Mayhew Bergman ( @guardian), “‘They chose us because we were rural and poor’: when environmental racism and climate change collide,” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/08/climate-changed-racism-environment-south /12
Have thoughts or questions? Ask @sophiekarpf! 13/13
