Joppa residents have been saying for years — if not decades — the factories that nearly surround their community spew toxic chemicals into the air. And they say the result has been generations of ...

The possibility of Harford County’s Mountain Branch Golf Club being turned into a data center is drawing backlash from the ...

An "Ask Adam about Austin Asphalt" sign is placed in front of the J.C. Phelps Recreation Center ahead of a community meeting in Joppa. Council Member Adam Bazaldua represents District 7, where Joppa ...

The story of Melissa Pierce School is also the story of Joppa, the neighborhood in which it sits. Formerly enslaved people founded this freedmen’s town on the banks of the Trinity River after the ...

In the shade of towering trees on a warm April afternoon, the tiny Joppa community in southern Dallas seems like a sleepy country town. Thick greenery surrounds the small homes in quiet despite the ...

Twenty-five-year-old Alicia Kendrick had lived in Joppa for only a short period when she became one of the community’s loudest voices for deindustrialization. Like many who came before her, Kendrick’s ...

JOPPA, Ill. (KFVS) - Joppa is home to one of the largest coal plants in southern Illinois and it’s set to close by the year 2025. With the nations change in many coal plant to solar energy, residents ...

A new study shows that residents of Dallas' Joppa neighborhood are exposed to two to three times as much air pollution and experience higher rates of respiratory illness than the rest of the city.