Community Real Talk

Open Letter To Dr. Sacoby Wilson and the Heinz Family Foundation This open letter is issued on behalf of the Brandywine/TB Southern Region Neighborhood Coalition, known as BTB Coalition, and the residents whose lived experience, documentation, organizing, legal advocacy, and public-health concerns helped establish Brandywine as a defining environmental-justice case in Maryland. We write regarding the public narrative surrounding Dr. Sacoby Wilson’s environmental-justice work,

Eight Years of Representation Require More Than a First Public Statement Your recent public comments regarding data centers have been praised by some as a “lesson in leadership.” From the perspective of Brandywine and Southern Region residents who have lived with the consequences of industrial concentration, environmental harm, infrastructure neglect and top-down development decisions throughout your eight years in office, that characterization requires a serious reality chec