From Pride to Prejudice: How Egyptian Identity Politics Sculpted the World’s Largest Garbage City through Ethnoreligious Divisions, 1940-1970s by Arthanious ShafikSite Description:Mansheyet Nasser is a district of Cairo, Egypt. Cairo is one of the largest metropolises...
Seneca Meadows; NY’s One stop shop for all it’s garbage needs
Seneca Meadows, NY's one stop shop for all its garbage needs by Michael SchoberSite Description: Project Description: Fresh Kills Landfill was opened in 1948 with the purpose of giving New York City's Trash a home and by 1955 it had become the largest Landfill...
A Tale of Two Cities: Stories of Race, Place, and Lead Contamination in Trenton, New Jersey and Levittown, Pennsylvania, 1950-1960
A Tale of Two Cities: Stories of Race, Place, and Lead Contamination in Trenton, New Jersey and Levittown, Pennsylvania, 1950-1960 by Gabriella ZalotSite Description:“Trenton makes, the world takes.” Although this reference to Trenton’s successful, industrial history...
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Curtains of Smoke: An analysis on the Jones and Laughlin's Pittsburgh Works Steel Mill and the affect its pollution had on the local community, 1945-1960. by Joey CraskaSite Description:This site will dive into the affects that the Pittsburgh steel mills had on the...
The Ironbound vs Newark International Airport
The Ironbound vs Newark International Airport by Aldo NolascoSite Description:It’s a beautiful spring day in the Ironbound neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey. As I am officiating a soccer game I come to notice planes landing towards Newark International Airport every...
Coal Ash in Uniontown, Alabama
“That smell ... it makes you want to vomit”: Uniontown, Alabama’s Fight Against Pollution (2000 - 2022) Jozy BentleySite Description: Uniontown, Alabama is a small (predominantly, 90.6%) black city that sits in Perry County. The people of this community have been...
The Struggle in Front of Toxics
The Struggle In Front of Toxics:The Unequal Hazardous Waste Distribution in Northeast Detroit (1974-2021) by Jui-Cheng Ryan WuSite Description:Since the mid-19th century, Detroit has been a center of industries and commerce of Michigan, it’s significance especially...
E Pluribus Unum
E Pluribus Unum: How A Small New Jersey Suburb Received One of The Most Complicated Cleanups in EPA History (1979-2021) by Gabe M. WeirSite Description:In the 1920s, on the border of Glen Ridge and Orange, NJ, the US Radium Company operated a factory where radium...
A Fight for Clean Water in Newark
A Fight for Clean Water in Newark: How Citizens Took Action When Their Government Failed to Ensure Good Water Quality (2016-2021) by Noah ThomasSite Description:Three years after Newark noticed its tap/drinking water showed unsafe levels of lead in its water the city...
South Jersey Clothing Company Water Pollution in Minotola, N.J.
Water Pollution in Minotola, NJ that effected the residential citizens and businesses nearby in the 1980s by Iona SmithSite Description:Minotola, NJ is a small city located in Atlantic County. The racial population consists of 82% White, 10.3% African American,...