The High Cost of High Tech: Environmental and Social Effects of AI Data Centers in Secaucus, New Jersey (2020–Present) by Samad LambSite Description: The Secaucus is a town located in Hudson County, New Jersey's Meadowlands region, a dangerously prone to flooding...
A United Front: How The Struggle for Palestinian Liberation on the Campus of Rutgers Newark Grew the Power of Newark Water Coalition
A United Front: How The Struggle for Palestinian Liberation on the Campus of Rutgers Newark Grew the Power of Newark Water Coalition by Maxwell Bonanno Site Description:The City of Newark has long since struggled with inequality, racial tensions and racially motivated...
When Water Turns into Poison: Race, Women, Class, and the Fight for Clean Water in Flint, Michigan (2014 – Present)
When Water Turns into Poison: Race, Women, Class, and the Fight for Clean Water in Flint, Michigan (2014 - Present) by Calixte AbandaSite Description:In 2014, Flint, a city in Michigan, became known around the world because of the water crisis that started there. To...
Resilient or Repeating Mistakes? Flood Management and Urban Planning in Atlantic City, NJ, Since 2012-present
Resilient or Repeating Mistakes? Flood Management and Urban Planning in Atlantic City, NJ, Since 2012-present by Vaidehi PatelSite Description:In Atlantic City, two realities exist side by side. On its postcard-ready shoreline, neighborhoods like Chelsea and Lower...
Eternal grief in City of God: socio-environmental inequalities connecting the flood disasters of 1966 and 1996 in Rio de Janeiro
Eternal grief in City of God: socio-environmental inequalities connecting the flood disasters of 1966 and 1996 in Rio de Janeiro by C.M. FreitasSite Description:This report focuses on the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It presents the history of two impactful...
Living in fear in Camden and Pennsauken (N.J.) over proposed waste to energy Incinerators, (1970’s- early 1990’s)
Living in fear in Camden and Pennsauken (N.J.) over proposed waste to energy Incinerators, (1970’s- early 1990’s) by Luis RamirezSite Description:My research topic will be based on the Landfill Crisis of the 1970's, and how the State of New Jersey decided to build...
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...
A Split City: The Cross Bronx Expressway
A Split City: The Destruction of the South Bronx by Qudsiya SyeddaSite Description:Popular drill rapper Ice Spice once said "We both from the Bronx, so I know that you dirty(dirty)" in her song No Clarity. The Bronx borough has longtime had the repuation of being an...
Agent Orange in Newark, New Jersey
Agent Orange Caselaw: How Lawsuits by Vietnam Veterans, Vietnamese Citizens, and Newark Residents Transformed Toxic Tort Litigation (1960-2008) by AB StudentSite Description:Diamond Alkali produced more than 700,000 gallons of Agent Orange at 80 -120 Lister Avenue in...
Muriel Rukeyser’s Environmental Justice Poetics
Gauley Bridge, WV’s Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster and the Proto-Environmental Justice Poetics of Muriel Rukeyser by Corey D ClawsonSite Description:In the years preceding the Great Depression, a project rerouting the New River was developed in order to generate...