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In 1987 the CRJ published Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States (1987), the first comprehensive national study of the demographic patterns associated with the location of hazardous waste sites. It stressed that the racial composition of a community was the single variable best able to ...
Workers who cleaned up a huge spill from a coal ash pond in Tennessee in 2008 are still suffering—and dying. The U.S. has 1,400 ash dumps.
Cleaning Up TOXIC DUMPS: Has Superfund Succeeded? 来自 EBSCO 喜欢 0 阅读量: 21 作者: JP Acton 摘要: Explores why the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund program has been slow in cleaning hazardous and radioactive waste sites. Funding for the Superfund program; Emergency response...
It turns out that He Puapua had been produced by Jacinda Ardern’s Government as a roadmap to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – a radical plan adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2007 to give self-identified indigenous people around the world co...
(the largest of its kind in the United States). In addition, they questioned the placement of large numbers of nuclear waste dumps on Native-American reservations. Meanwhile, activists, scholars, and policymakers began investigating the link between race and exposure to environmental hazards. Two ...
As Tropical Storm Florence spins inland, environmental regulators are monitoring more than three dozen toxic waste sites in the storm's path, as well as scores of low-lying water- and sewage-treatment plants at risk of flooding.
It wasn't a shot of Sarnia's postcard-pretty beaches along Lake Huron, or the cantilevered Blue Water Bridge that links the city to the United States. It was a photo of an oil refinery. Such was the clout â both emotional and financial â of industry; it became a...
“One question I ask these companies,” says Smith, the New Orleans lawyer, “‘What have you done to go out and find all the radioactive waste you have dumped all over the United States for the past 120 years?’ And the answer is nothing.” ...
The trends of the two mining areas were quite different. Nevertheless, the ancient copper mine is similar to the trend found in Liberty State Park in the United States [39]. According to the pollution level corresponding to Igeo in Table S1 and combined with the judgment of [1] on Igeo,...