Climate changemakers fighting for environmental justice: "This is what transformation is about" By Jeff Berardelli, Katherine Niemczyk May 24, 2021 / 4:27 PM / CBS News Former coal miner sees future in solar power Scott Shoupe is a fourth-generation coal miner recently turned renewable energy technician from eastern Kentucky. Leo Woodberry is the reverend of a small, predominantly African American church in Florence, South Carolina. Their lives couldn't be much more dissimilar. But recently their paths crossed when Shoupe's work took him on a 350-mile journey to Woodberry's church. And although they are two very different people from two very different places, they discovered they had something in common: they are both determined to use the challenges posed by environmental neglect and climate change and turn them into opportunities for their communities.