“…Similar to the MSJCC, the environmental justice movement has embraced the tenets of intersectionality (Pellow & Brehm, 2013; Sarathy, 2018). Whereas the environmental justice movement originally focused heavily on issues of environmental racism, it has since expanded to incorporate an intersectional focus due to the influence of fields such as ecofeminism, sociology, critical race theory, and Native/Indigenous theory (Sarathy, 2018). For example, scholars have documented that the White working class in Appalachia have been subjected to environmental injustice through extreme air and water pollution and environmental disasters (Mozena & Perrault, 2017).…”