Bye Bye, Hydrogen Sulfide: How a Grassroot Movement in Kearny, New Jersey Shut Down a Local Toxic Landfill by Victoria GarzianoSite Description: Keegan Landfill is a dumping ground located in Kearny, New Jersey. When opened in the 1950’s, this landfill was used to...
The Other Side of Water
The Other Side of Water: Instead of involving community, New York City’s went to greenwashing to hide an Environmental Injustice and Poor Planning by Anis ShiliSite Description: By 1938, the Department of Public Works considers channeling all waste from Manhattan’s...
The Most Irradiated Spot on Earth
The Most Irradiated Spot on Earth and the Injustice Done There by Benjamin RichardsSite Description: Lake Karachay is a 0.15 km2 body of water located in the city of Ozersk, in the Ural Mountain region of the Russian Federation (55.6781° N, 60.7996° E). In 1951, the...
Long Lives Memphis
Long Lives Memphis But Not the Residents: Battle for Environmental Justice by Kimberly PadillaSite Description: It all started when Echol Cole and Robert Walker, were crushed to death by a faulty truck in Memphis, Tennessee on February 11, 1968. From that day on, the...
Prolonged Suffocation
The Prolonged Suffocation of the Bronx: A look at the absence of any bright and clear future for clean air for the residents of Mott Haven by Michael LukijaniukSite Description: I am looking to analyze and discuss the negative health effects on the residents of Mott...
Zoning Barriers
Zoning Barriers: An Industrial Revolutions in Ironbound Led by Immigrants Now they are the Most Vulnerable by Ruben E. IzurietaSite Description: In the 1800s, the industrial boom in Newark was led by the first wave of Irish immigrants that moved to this city,...
American Dream Mall
American Dream Mall: Bergen County’s Future Environmental Injustice Nightmare by Alexandra VidalSite Description: After almost 20 years after its inception, in October 2020 the American Dream Mall, the second-largest shopping center in the United States, finally...
We’d Like to Forget
‘We’d Like to Forget, the World won’t let Us’: A Disastrous Event is Now Remembered for the Positive Outcome by Isabella SangalineSite Description: Donora is a small industrial town located on the Monongahela River, south of Pittsburgh, that sat between two factories....
Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth
Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth: Artists, A Sick Building, and Gentrification in Newark by Colleen G. O’NealSite Description: Artists and grassroots organizations play a pivotal role in the development of any city, often functioning with little to no resources, but...
Detention Center
Detention Center’s contribution to environmental Injustice: How the built environment perpetuates racial oppression by Baïna-Lyssa JeanSite Description: Although climate change affects every countries, the imminent devastating effects are highly felt by third world...