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The Daily Free Press

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Veronica Coptis, executive director of the Center for Coalfield Justice in Pennsylvania, delivers a lecture as part of the “People and the Planet” series at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Monday afternoon. COURTESY OF JAKE BELCHER

MIT lecturer brings Pennsylvania coalfield justice to Boston

Amelia Murray-Cooper November 7, 2018
Hundreds of miles away, workers extract coal from mines in southwestern Pennsylvania. Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Environmental Solutions Initiative brought the coalfields to Boston through a talk they hosted about environmental and economic justice for the residents of those mining towns.
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