Perilous paint and the fight for the Ringwood mines in New Jersey (2008-2021) by Kyle McLennanSite Description: In the late 1960s and early 70s the Ringwood mines were used to get rid of paint sludge, and other waste, from the Ford assembly plant in Mahwah. The EPA...
Segregation over Safety
Segregation Over Safety:Suburbanization of Staten Island Via Fresh Kills Landfill (1948-2021) by J. LopezSite Description: Staten Island, or in more legal terms Richmond County, used to house the largest landfill in the world, opened in 1948. Fresh Kills Landfill was...
From Bleak Landfills
Overpeck County Park: From Bleak Landfills to Green Hills (1957-2021) by Aaron LeuSite Description: The story begins around the 1950s in Overpeck Creek, located in Bergen County, NJ. An area that was once a diverse wetland ecosystem became a miserable dumpsite filled...
Lead and Arsenic Poisoning
Lead and Arsenic Poisoning by U.S. Smelter and Lead Refinery in East Chicago, Indiana over the last Century by N. HomSite Description: East Chicago is in the northwest corner of Indiana, near the border between Indiana and Illinois and on the coastline of Lake...
Bye Bye, Hydrogen Sulfide
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...
Sounds of Injustice
Sounds of Injustice: the unspoken link between hip hop and the Flint water crisis. by Robert MurphySite Description: Music has sometimes been used to give voices to unheard people and to shed light on issues that nobody talks about. Over the last hundred years or so...
Agent Orange Production
Agent Orange: Environmental Injustice at Home and Abroad by Susan CohenSite Description: As a historian interested in American foreign affairs and legal history, researching the use of Agent Orange is an interesting and relevant way to connect foreign policy and law....
Three Mile Island: Health
Democracy in Decline: Faith and Trust at Three Mile Island by Vinas Patel Site Description: In March, 1979, the nuclear plant at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania became a scene of national and global attention. Technical malfunction and administrative negligence led to...
Three Mile Island: Media
Three Mile Island: America's Scar by Diandre WilsonSite Description: Three Mile Island is the site of a nuclear power plant in south central Pennsylvania. In March 1979, a series of mechanical and human errors at the plant caused the worst commercial nuclear accident...
The X-Files
Newark Becomes ‘Host’ to X-Files Conspiracy: The Search for Truth and Justice in the Nation’s Second Largest Sewer by Christina NguyenSite Description: The X-Files is one of the most recognizable and culturally significant television series to come out of the 1990s,...