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== Documents ==
== Documents ==


=== Interviews collected between 2023–2025 by the Repair Lab's Adrian Wood ===
=== Interviews in news media with residents' discussing coal dust impacts ===


* Name, date Audio | Transcript
* [[:File:Daily Press 1956 12 18 Page 3.pdf|Council Gets Air Pollution Control Plan, ''Daily Press'', December 18, 1956]]
* Name, date Audio | Transcript
* [[:File:Daily Press 1984 05 05 Page 10.pdf|Dust Covered Apartments (Continued from Page 1), ''Daily Press'', May 5, 1984]]
* Name, date Audio | Transcript
* [https://www.pilotonline.com/2023/11/03/for-decades-coal-dust-has-been-plaguing-newport-news-and-norfolk-communities-residents-are-skeptical-change-will-come/ Janney, Study Aims to Test Effects of Coal Dust, but Residents are Skeptical Change Will Come, ''The'' ''Virginian Pilot'', November 3, 2023]
* Name, date Audio | Transcript
* [https://www.wtkr.com/news/newport-news-residents-voice-concerns-about-coal-pollution-in-city-council-meeting Hollingsworth, Newport News Residents Voice Concerns about Coal Pollution, ''3WTKR'', January 23, 2024]
* Name, date Audio | Transcript
* [https://www.wtkr.com/news/in-the-community/newport-news/newport-news-residents-say-coal-dust-is-the-source-of-some-health-problems Saitta, Newport News Residents Say Coal Dust is the Source of Some Health Problems, ''WTKR'', April 20, 2024]
* Name, date Audio | Transcript
 
* Name, date Audio | Transcript
=== Interviews collected between 2023–2025 by the Adrian Wood with the Repair Lab ===
 
* Patricia Taylor, November 25, 2024 [[:File:Momma-pat-11252024.mp3|Audio]] | [[:File:Momma-pat-11252024-transcript.pdf|Transcript]]

Latest revision as of 20:13, 5 June 2025

Residents have deep expertise on the impacts of coal dust pollution in Southeast Newport News and Lambert's Point, organizing in resistance, and priorities around solutions and visions for the future. Several themes emerge in these interviews and oral histories, including life in the now-demolished Harbor Homes public housing complex, effects of coal dust on property, home value, and household finances, and the prevalence of health impacts to residents, especially respiratory illness.

Documents

Interviews in news media with residents' discussing coal dust impacts

Interviews collected between 2023–2025 by the Adrian Wood with the Repair Lab