The Brumadinho Dam Disaster:Rape and Pillaging of the Rainforest and Gross Negligence Against Latinos by a Multinational Corporation by Johnny Alexander Tablada-RodríguezSite Description: On 25 January 2019, a dam holding 9.7 million cubic meters of mining sludge...
The Most Irradiated Spot on Earth
The Most Irradiated Spot on Earth and the Injustice Done There by Benjamin RichardsSite Description: Lake Karachay is a 0.15 km2 body of water located in the city of Ozersk, in the Ural Mountain region of the Russian Federation (55.6781° N, 60.7996° E). In 1951, the...
Zoning for Gloomy Days
Zoning for Gloomy Days: How the Ironbound was Designed to Oppress Child Development by Catrina NelsonSite Description: In the Ironbound district of Newark, NJ, there is a long history of land zoned for industrial use, such as factories, incinerators and an airport,...
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...
Uranium Mines
Uranium Mines, the “Hidden” Poison of the Navajo Nation: How Anti-Nuclear Campaigns restricted progress for Navajo activism by Nicholas KennySite Description: This research paper is set in the mid-20th century, during the beginning of the nuclear arms races between...
Zoning Barriers
Zoning Barriers: An Industrial Revolutions in Ironbound Led by Immigrants Now they are the Most Vulnerable by Ruben E. IzurietaSite Description: In the 1800s, the industrial boom in Newark was led by the first wave of Irish immigrants that moved to this city,...
3M
3M, the Tennessee River, and PFAS: A History of Pollution by Taylor HawkinsSite Description: 3M admitted in an April 2019 letter to the EPA that it had been illegally releasing FBSA and FBSEE chemicals into the Tennessee River from the company’s Decatur, AL...
The Price of Gas
The Price of Gas: How Cabot Oil & Gas profited at the expensive of the residents of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania by Cameron GreerSite Description: Since 2008, there has been a huge boom in the hydraulic fracturing industry in Pennsylvania in counties above the...
A Community Divided
A Community Divided: How a Proposed Auto Junkyard Split Andover Township Residents and Elected Officials in Two by Nicholas FugaroSite Description: Andover Township is located in northwest New Jersey in Sussex County. This town has a long history on living side by...
A healthy lifestyle in a toxic environment
A healthy lifestyle in a toxic environment: The Laotian community of Richmond, CA in the late 90s and early 2000s by Luis Alfredo ChiangSite Description: I am Luis Alfredo Chiang, a student at NJIT. I chose to work on this project for two reasons. The first reason is...