hazardous waste managementWarren County, North Carolina, is heralded as a watershed event of contemporary environmentalism, as the birthplace of the environmental justice movement. This article identifies four requirements for the emergence of a social movement (cultural frames, social networks, disruptive...
The text centers on the intersection of environmental law, human rights, and environmental justice, using the case of the hazardous waste landfill siting in Warren County, North Carolina, as a primary example. It examines the infringement of residents' rights, particularly focusing on the injustice...
when a predominantly African-American community in Warren County, North Carolina, challenged a propose polychlorinated biphenyl landfill as an act of "environme... Frumkin,Howard - 《Environmental Health Perspectives》 被引量: 47发表: 2005年 Choosing the most effective hazardous waste landfill cover De...
Local Emergency Planning- mandated by State Archives and Records Administration Title III Regulations; meets with private industry, County departments, fire, police, etc. to ensure that hazardous materials are maintained and safely used, and incidents correctly managed ...
In 1987, the United Church of Christ's Commission on Racial Justice commissioned one of the first studies on hazardous waste in communities of color. A few years later - 28 years ago this month - delegates to the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit adopted 17 principl...
not be adequate. The state Department of Environmental Protection completed its own audit of the cleanup of the site and determined that the steps taken by Algonquin Gas Transmission, a subsidiary ofSpectra Energy-Enbridge, did not fully comply with the state’s ha...
Although the suit was unsuccessful, the Warren County protests led to a 1983 General Accounting Office study and a 1987 United Church of Christ's Commission on Racial Justice (CRJ) study, both of which found that hazardous waste facilities were more likely to be located in minority communities....