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...
Warren County 2.0
Warren County 2.0: The Unequal Hazardous Waste Distribution In Northeast Detroit 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 escalated as the...
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...
Cleaning up Newark Water
Cleaning up Newark Water: A reconstruction project to replace lead water pipes. by N. ThomasSite Description: Three years after Newark noticed its tap/drinking water showed unsafe levels of lead in its water they have decided to uproot about 23,000 lead pipes in the...
Lithium Mining
Lithium Mining in the Atacama Salt Flats, Chile: How the Strive for Environmentally Sustainable Vehicles is Doing More Harm Than Good by Patrycja SzwarcSite Description: Although there are a number of companies who mine lithium in the Atacama Desert in Chile, I want...
California’s Black Heroin
Los Angeles Urban Oil Drilling: California’s Black Heroin by J. SedilloSite Description: Oil was discovered in Los Angeles County in the early 1890’s, the ‘Los Angeles Oil Field’ was once the top producing oil field in California. Though Los Angeles county is the...
Grime and Filth, Followed by a Train
Parrish, Alabama:The Poor Facing Grime and Filth, Followed by a Train (2017-2021) by Philip PoretskySite Description: In 2017, cargo from a New York train, carrying waste, made its home in the small town of Parrish Alabama. The stench – atrocious, disrupting daily...
The PCB Golf Course
The PCB Golf Course: How the Hyatt Hills Golf Course of Clark, NJ is a Potential Risk to its Visitors and Neighbors (1942-2021) by Giulian PacellaSite Description: The Hyatt Hills Golf Course in Clark New Jersey was not always a golf course, previously it had been a...
Following Flint’s Failures
Flint’s dirty water, just the tip of the iceberg: How different cities exhibiting lead contamination shows a larger problem than previously expected (2017-2021) by Nico OberholtzerSite Description: By now, I don’t believe there is a single person who hasn’t heard the...