Environmental Justice

Clear Warnings Needed: "Hair Dye Cancer Risk Stokes Fear In Black Women"

"Priscilla Graves is a hairstylist with 15 years’ experience straightening and coloring black women’s hair. She has endured bouts of dizziness, nausea and difficulty breathing from applying potent chemical straighteners, and regularly deals with distraught clients suffering alopecia and painful blisters after using dyes and lotions specifically marketed to African Americans."

Source: Guardian, 01/10/2020

Trump Water Rollback Leaves New Mexico Fearing Pollution, Health Risks

"TAOS, N.M. — Twice a day, every day, Vicente Fernandez walks along the banks of the Rio Fernando, inspecting the river that has shaped his valley’s fortunes for generations."

Source: LA Times, 01/10/2020

"Oil And Gas: Environmental Justice Concerns Halt Major Pipeline Permit"

"Federal judges have vacated a permit for constructing an Atlantic Coast pipeline compressor station, dealing another setback to the embattled natural gas project. The move is an environmental justice win for local opponents of the project."

Source: Greenwire, 01/08/2020
June 30, 2024

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