In 2021, Schnitzerpaid $4.1 million to settle a lawsuit by Alameda County and the State of Californiaalleging the company allowed hazardous waste to pollute surrounding areas of West Oakland and the Oakland Estuary. The settlement resolved claims that Schnitzer violated emissions rules and faile...
And the repercussions of this sort of segregation are evident in the apparent disenfranchisement of despair, revealed in this simple map of voter participation that Ofurhe Igbinedion so astutely thought to create from Alameda County electoral data, which shows a valley of voter absenteeism in an a...