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...
Martin Aaron Incorporated
Martin Aaron Incorporated: Camden’s Century-Old Poison Well by Sterling ClarkSite Description: I am a Information Technology undergraduate at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. I have moved to Burlington, NJ almost 3 years ago and the city of Camden is a short...
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...
Who Let the Dogs Out?
Who Let the Dogs Out: The Avoidable Radioactive River by Rami BazoqaSite Description: After WWII, the once rural farmlands that made up Wayne Township transformed into a residential suburb after it had attracted many workers who moved to follow wartime industries...
Oyster Occupation
Oyster Occupation: A Look Into The Oyster Industry In Raritan Bay by Erik AleksanyanSite Description: Bordering New York and New Jersey is a small river named the Arthur Kill. Pre 1900’s the river was teeming with wild oyster beds ready to be caught and enjoyed by...
What is Justice?
What is Justice? The Ongoing Case of New Jersey’s Infamous Toms River Cancer Cluster by KMSite Description: Toms River, New Jersey is infamously known as “Chemical Town” to the people who live in the surrounding area. The town developed this rather unfortunate...
Pickerel or Payroll
Pickerel or Payroll: Conflicting Attitudes on Pollution of the Androscoggin River 1943-1972 by Seth LaskinSite Description: On March 12, 1965, Dr. Walter Lawrance, chairman of the Androscoggin River Technical Committee, received word of a lawsuit filed by “a large...
Change Over Time
Change Over Time: The Polluted Perimeter of The Newark Bay and it’s Environmental Injustice Effects by Alexandra DePaloSite Description: The Newark Bay is at the junction of where the Hackensack and Passaic rivers meet. It is around 5.5 miles long and is on the west...
The Race for Diamonds
The Race for Diamonds: NJDEP VS. EPA by Zachary ValbrunSite Description: The Environmental Site I have chosen is the lower stretch of the Passaic River located in Northeast New Jersey. This part of the river starts around Belleville and ends in front of Newark Bay,...