pollution
Truthout has published an excerpt of Out of Sight, on toxicity and environmental justice. The potential for a strong labor-green coalition to fight for healthy workplaces and ecosystems clean enough.
Above: Pig waste lagoon While Out of Sight is primarily about international production and how the global race to the bottom protects companies from accountability for their sourcing practices because.
Thanks to an unfortunate combination of factors, Maryland has elected a Republican governor. They are already getting what they asked for. Larry Hogan has already withdrawn from regulations of phosphorous.
Paul Voosen has an interesting article at National Geographic that wonders why there has not been more known cancer clusters develop given the nation's long history of toxicity. There's no.
On December 2, 1984, a gas leak in a Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India killed somewhere between 3787 and 16,000 people. Perhaps the worst industrial disaster in world.
Jason Motlagh and Josh Eidelson have an excellent piece up on the horrors of the Bangladeshi leather industry. When you buy leather goods, where do you think the leather comes.
On October 27, 1948, an air inversion trapped the pollution spewed out by U.S. Steel-owned factories in Donora, Pennsylvania. The Donora Fog killed 20 people and sickened 6000 others. This.
Nice to see the asbestos industry pushing its deadly product on poor nations like India. What are a few million developing world lives when there are profits for rich world.