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Data center fight forced right-wing media to cover environmental justice
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Media Matters for America
These are environmental justice concerns, even though the coverage elided the term.
Right-wing media had spent years dismissing, mocking, or racializing environmental justice as a concept.
They attacked Biden-era climate and environmental justice provisions and cheered rollbacks of environmental and public health protections, helping the Trump administration recast environmental justice funding as waste, corruption, or left-wing patronage.
These outlets did not connect those complaints to the same environmental justice demands Black communities and organizers were already making elsewhere.
Amid growing opposition, some right-wing media figures have shifted their scrutiny from data center developers to the people and communities opposing them.