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Author: Austyn Gaffney

Austyn Gaffney is a freelance reporter in Kentucky covering agriculture, energy and climate change. Her work has been featured in HuffPost, In These Times, onEarth, Sierra, Vice and more.

Co-published with Grist. Landslides are one of Kentucky's costliest natural disasters. Climate change is increasing their danger.

Co-published with The Guardian. Across a cluster of low-income, mostly Black neighborhoods, toxic waste sites risk contaminating an aquifer and endangering the lives of residents with noxious emissions.

Co-published with The Guardian and SoutherlyHundreds of workers fell ill after cleaning up America’s largest industrial disaster without proper gear. Twelve years …

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