"Trains heaped with coal pass through Richmond every week on their way to the city’s port. In Parchester Village, a largely black and Latino neighborhood in northwestern Richmond, residents say coal dust blows off the open mounds, covering the grass and coating their screen doors.

'This little neighborhood, nobody seems to care about,' says Paul Marquis, who moved to Parchester Village three years ago.

Marquis says in the last year, he’s seen more trains go by, and more black dust on his property."

Julie Small reports for KQED June 22, 2015. [2]