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Apr 30, 2021 · The low-cost, easy-to-use air samplers were first developed for a community in Northern California, where the adjacent oil refinery had had a series of toxic air releases. For the first time ever, In search of environmental justice and possible futures for the Flammable neighborhood, Argentina
‘Critical’ Minerals and the Politics of Refusal – Toxic News
Apr 30, 2021 · Dayna Nadine Scott, Associate Professor & York Research Chair in Environmental Law & Justice in the Green Economy, York University. Header image credit: Allan Lissner, PraxisPictures.Source: Neskantaga: We Love Our Land — PraxisPictures A quiet struggle has been playing out in Ontario’s far north as a wave of Indigenous cultural and political resurgence collides with a renewed push to ...
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Toxic News online magazine is a forum for discussions about toxics in everyday life. We aim to bring together a wide range of stories, cases, and perspectives about toxics, from researchers, activists, writers, and artists.
The Global Petrochemical Map: Drawing the Political ... - Toxic News
Aug 29, 2019 · In fact, the siting of the most toxic petrochemical plants in the vicinities of minority and low-income communities or the deployment of extremely repressive employment practices in countries where labour is weak can only be understood through the prism of power relations embedded in space.
Translating Toxic Exposure: Taiwan RCA – Toxic News
Feb 1, 2018 · In countless toxic-tort cases, courts have adopted a “one-chemical-one-disease” view of causation, enabling companies that have unlawfully exposed people to a mix of hazardous chemicals to avoid any liability, as the causal links are so complex.
‘El aire está malo’: Living with toxics in a Chilean ... - Toxic News
Feb 28, 2020 · One of the latest emergencies happened in August 2018, when a toxic cloud descended on the bay causing significant levels of intoxication among locals. In this context, officers from ONEMI (Oficina Nacional de Emergencias/National Emergency Office) arrived at the bay to announce the application of a new technology to measure atmospheric substances.
With the launch of Toxic News, we seek to address these gaps in toxic news, not only in terms of what is reported, but in terms of our analytical focus. Just what is toxic, and how can we measure toxic effects on health and the environment? How are toxic effects experienced in different places and times, and for different people?
Editorial: Environmental Justice in the Global South ... - Toxic News
Aug 29, 2019 · From interdisciplinary perspectives and through geographic case studies, the articles in this issue of Toxic News bring to light environmental justice struggles and the multiple forms of violence connected to environmental crises and toxicity in the Global South.
The Bahía Blanca Petrochemical Complex: Why I Have Made a
Nov 18, 2019 · Toxic clouds emanating from the industries’ chimneys, strong smells. Cracks in people’s houses caused by the building of port terminals for these enterprises. It became impossible to fish in the contaminated waters.
Mapping the Toxic Remnants of War – Toxic News
Feb 2, 2016 · With a few notorious exceptions, such as the aerial spraying of TCDD contaminated herbicides in south east Asia, the oil fires and depleted uranium ammunition in Iraq, or the US military’s use of burn pits, the toxic legacy of armed conflict is under-addressed by researchers, the media and the international community.