Growing Salads, Harming Children: Evaluating Pesticide Exposure & Extent of Policy Protection on School Children in Salinas Valley, CA from the 2000s-Present by Wafiza Julkipli Site Description:Often called “The Salad Bowl of the World”, Salinas Valley,...
Deciding Who Breathes Dirty Air: External Power and Everyday Life in Camden, 2000s-Present
Deciding Who Breathes Dirty Air: External Power and Everyday Life in Camden, 1960s-Present by Maya SchaefleinSite Description: Waterfront South is a small, predominantly Black and Latino, working-class neighborhood in Camden, New Jersey, located along the Delaware...
Beneath the Surface: Chromium Groundwater Contamination, Property Damage, and Public Health at the Garfield, New Jersey Superfund Site, 1980s-Present
Beneath the Surface: Chromium Groundwater Contamination, Property Damage, and Public Health at the Garfield, New Jersey Superfund Site, 1980s-Present by Rahima ShaikhSite Description:In 1983, chrome plating facility E.C. Electroplating (ECE) in Garfield, New Jersey...
The Forgotten Factory: Industrial Latex in Wallington, N.J., 1983-2016
The Forgotten Factory: A Story of EPA Neglect and Propaganda, Industrial Latex in Wallington NJ by Juan AlzateSite Description:In the town of Wallington NJ, there was a glue factory named Industrial Latex that operated from 1951 to 1983. After its closure, it was...
Igniting the SPARK: Portuguese Ironbound and the struggle for Environmental Justice in Newark 1960s-1990s
Igniting the SPARK: Portuguese Ironbound and the struggle for Environmental Justice in Newark, N.J., 1960s-1990s by Ethan JardimSite Description: Riverbank Park Protests, Newark Public Library Internet ArchiveIn 1995, the Newark city government proposed a plan to...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Six Million Cubic Feet
How Almost Six Million Cubic Feet of Radium-Enriched Soil Silently Poisoned the Residents of Glen Ridge, New Jersey for over 60 Years by G. WeirSite Description: In the 1920s, on the border of Glen Ridge and Orange, NJ, the US Radium Company operated a factory where...