Digital Archive and Mapping Project
This website is a collaboration among students, faculty, local residents, citizen researchers, and community activists. Together they have co-produced and collected source materials on the history of environmental inequality and the fight for environmental justice in frontline communities in the Newark, New Jersey region, across the United States, and internationally.
The website currently archives hundreds of historical source materials, including primary texts, images, and maps; lists of secondary sources; scientific, demographic, and health data; and original oral interviews. Additionally, the site also contains more than 100 original “Final Reports” written by these collaborators on specific environmental justice sites.
Visitors to this publicly accessible website can use the “Search” window below to cross-reference these historical materials by location, category of environmental injustice, keyword, and historical date.
We encourage visitors to the site to use these resources for research on environmental inequalities affecting their own local communities.
Neil M. Maher
Search by Location, Category of Injustice, Keyword or Date Range
Burning Passions and Burning Waste
Jersey City, New Jersey 07302 5.28 mi
The Other Side of Water
New York, New York 10024 6.31 mi
The Prolonged Suffocation of the Bronx
New York, New York 10454-4606 7.78 mi
American Dream Mall
New Jersey 07094 9.82 mi
Ronson Lighter Fluid Factory
Newark, New Jersey 07105 9.95 mi
Noise Can Do More Than Just Hurt Your Ears
New York, New York 10460 10.02 mi
Agent Orange Caselaw
Newark, New Jersey 07105 10.08 mi
Operation Rolling Blunder
Newark, New Jersey 07105 10.12 mi
Agent Orange
Newark, New Jersey 07105 10.12 mi
The Race for Diamonds
Newark, New Jersey 07105 10.12 mi
Ironbound Noise Pollution
Newark, New Jersey 07105 10.22 mi
Newark Children
Newark, New Jersey 07105 10.22 mi
Legal Inequality Along the Cross Bronx Expressway
New York, New York 10452 10.23 mi
You Gotta Fight, For Your Right, For Clean Water
Newark, New Jersey 07105 10.35 mi
Newark’s Ironbound Community Loses Against Inci...
Newark, New Jersey 07105 10.66 mi
Open Windows Without Clean Air
Elizabeth, New Jersey 07114 10.95 mi
From Bleak Landfills to Lush Green Hills
New Jersey 07660 11.03 mi
Bye Bye, Hydrogen Sulfide
New Jersey 07032 11.25 mi
Do You Know What Your Children Are Exposed To?
Newark, New Jersey 07105 11.65 mi
Change Over Time
Newark, New Jersey 07114 11.85 mi
Newark's Lead and Water Crisis
Newark, New Jersey 07102 11.85 mi
Where to Grocery Shop?
Newark, New Jersey 07102 11.85 mi
Zoning Barriers
Newark, New Jersey 07102 11.85 mi
Zoning for Gloomy Days
Newark, New Jersey 07102 11.85 mi
It’s Raining Dogs, Cats, and Injustice
Newark, New Jersey 07102 11.85 mi
Cleaning up Newark Water
Newark, New Jersey 07102 11.85 mi
A Fight for Clean Water in Newark
Newark, New Jersey 07102 11.85 mi
Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth
Newark, New Jersey 07102:07103 11.87 mi
Inequalities in Bicycle Infrastructure: Newark ...
Newark, New Jersey 07114 12.35 mi
Newark’s Anheuser Busch
Newark, New Jersey 07114 12.61 mi
Segregation over Safety
New York, New York 10306 12.73 mi
Highway to Disaster
Elizabeth, New Jersey 07201 13.79 mi
Six Million Cubic Feet of Radium-Enriched Soil
Glen Ridge, New Jersey 07028 15.13 mi
E Pluribus Unum
Glen Ridge, New Jersey 07028 15.13 mi
The PCB Golf Course
New Jersey 07066 19.22 mi
Oyster Occupation
New York, New York 10307 19.73 mi
“Clean Our Water, Wash Out Wilda”
Perth Amboy, New Jersey 08861 21.14 mi
From Toxic Waste to Dog Park
New Jersey 07470 25.07 mi
Mineshaft Madness
New Jersey 07456 32.52 mi
RPM Act: Protect Your Right to Race
Drowning in the Raritan
Manville, New Jersey 08835 35.09 mi
Wealth In Environmental Justice
New Jersey 08807 35.27 mi
What is Justice?
Toms River, New Jersey 08753 53.07 mi
Musconetcong River Sewer Plant
Hampton, New Jersey 08827 53.23 mi
The Merchants of Trenton
Trenton, New Jersey 08609 53.27 mi
Lead Contamination in Trenton, NJ and Levittown...
Trenton, New Jersey 08609 53.42 mi
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Pohatcong Township, New Jersey 08804 62.14 mi
Martin Aaron Incorporated
Camden, New Jersey 08102 80.63 mi
In Dirty Water
Camden, New Jersey 08102 80.63 mi
Water Pollution in Minotola, NJ
Buena, New Jersey 08341 97.05 mi
Three Mile Island: Media
Pennsylvania 17057 150.64 mi
Three Mile Island: Health
Pennsylvania 17057 150.64 mi
Seneca Meadows Landfill; Fresh Kills Replacement
New York 13165 213.82 mi
‘We’d Like to Forget, the World Won’t Let Us’
Donora, Pennsylvania 15033 312.67 mi
Air Pollution at Jones and Laughlin Steel Mill ...
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15203 316.53 mi
Muriel Rukeyser’s Environmental Justice Poetics
West Virginia 25831 416.26 mi
Crowdsourced *ism
North Carolina 28349 452.82 mi
Warren County 2.0
Detroit, Michigan 48226 483.65 mi
Toxics in Northeast Detroit
Detroit, Michigan 48226 483.65 mi
Sounds of Injustice
Flint, Michigan 48502 525.79 mi
Following Flint's Failures
Michigan 49022 654.71 mi
Lead and Arsenic Poisoning by U.S. Smelter and ...
Chicago, Illinois 60605 713.61 mi
3M, the Tennessee River, and PFAS
Decatur, Alabama 35601:35603 829.44 mi
Grime and Filth
Parrish, Alabama 35580 876.01 mi
Eat, Breath and Drink Toxins
Uniontown, Alabama 36786 942.16 mi
Long Lives Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee 3813 955.79 mi
Interstate 10
New Orleans, Louisiana 70119 1169.47 mi
Oil Pipelines: The Disregard Of The Native Amer...
South Dakota 1408.15 mi
Sargassum on Vacation
Cancun, Quintana Roo 77507 1547.39 mi
They Have Forgotten About Us
Ponce, Puerto Rico 00733-1910 1627.15 mi
Detention Center’s Contribution to Environmenta...
McAllen, Texas 78501 1711.41 mi
California's Black Heroin
Los Angeles, California 90026 2449.49 mi
Homes and Highways
Los Angeles, California 90016 2454.95 mi
The 1994 Northridge Earthquake Aftermath
Los Angeles, California 91406-1232 2457.45 mi
A Healthy Lifestyle in a Toxic Environment
Richmond, California 94801 2561.38 mi
The Brumadinho Dam Disaster
Presidente Juscelino, Minas Gerais 4517.35 mi
Lithium Mining in the Atacama Salt Flats, Chile
Antofagasta, Antofagasta Region 4518.33 mi
The Most Irradiated Spot on Earth
Tatysh, Chelyabinsk Oblast 456780 5262.33 mi
Egypt's Recycling Miracle: The Garbage City
Cairo, Cairo 11699 5606.87 mi