I doubt any readers of LGM will be that shocked that people of color are exposed to toxic environments at rates far higher than whites. But the differential, at least.
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.
Ellen Spears' new environmental history of the chemical industry in Anniston, Alabama is a worthy addition to the literature on environmental justice. She tells the story of Anniston, a city.
Fifty years after Selma, it's worth remembering that the continued exploitation of poor blacks by whites also includes their environmental exploitation, as (largely) white-owned companies use their neighborhoods for toxic.
Plumer has a good summary of one of the nation's most underreported energy/environmental problems--coal ash storage. Storing this nasty stuff safely is a real problem. Environmentalists have pushed for new.
In Carson, California, Shell Oil used to have an oil tank farm. Then, thanks to America's lax environmental regulatory state, a housing development was built on top of it when.
