Envision a reality where environmental degradation is not a matter of bad luck but a targeted oversight, one that disproportionately impacts your community. Here, the very elements meant to nurture life, air, water, and soil, become silent aggressors under the … Continue reading
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Environmental Racism in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
‘Cancer Alley’ is the dark nickname given to an 85-mile stretch of land along the Mississippi River between the cities of Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana. The parishes (Louisiana’s equivalent of counties) along this stretch, known as the River … Continue reading
Bill C-230: Confronting Environmental Racism in Canada
Environmental injustice and racial injustice tend to be recognized as separate issues, therefore Bill C-230, which puts them in conversion with one another, is crucial. However, this bill is only our starting point and there is a long ways to go.