Harm City
The Quest for Environmental Justice and Climate Adaptation in Baltimore
On a ‘Toxic Tour’ of Curtis Bay in South Baltimore, Visiting Academics and Activists See a Hidden Part of the City
Curtis Bay may be Baltimore’s most polluted community, surrounded by industrial facilities strangling the rowhouse neighborhood. The city now wants to close a local recreation center to make way for even more industry, continuing what activists say has been decades of environmental racism.
By Aman Azhar
![Shashawnda Campbell, community organizer with South Baltimore Community Land Trust, a local nonprofit working on affordable housing, in front of piles of coal at the CSX facility in Baltimore. Baltimore City recently decided to close the only recreation facility available to Curtis Bay residents dealing with coal dust and other hazards from the facility. Credit: Jessica Gallagher/Baltimore Banner.](jpg/bb-ln-insideclimatenewspart1-001-900x600.jpg)