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Residents of Buckingham County sing along as a town hall with former vice-president Al Gore and Rev. William Barber begins in Buckingham, Va., Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019. The town hall is to protest the proposed compressor station in Union Hill for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

Residents of Buckingham County sing along as a town hall with former vice-president Al Gore and Rev. William Barber begins in Buckingham, Va., Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019. The town hall is to protest the proposed compressor station in Union Hill for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

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Gore, Barber decry environmental racism in Va.

Former Vice President Al Gore urged residents of a historic African-American community in Buckingham County on Tuesday to continue their fight against a plan to build a natural gas pipeline compressor station in their community.