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  2. List of environmental conflicts - Wikipedia

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    The Environmental Justice Atlas documented 3,100 environmental conflicts worldwide as of April 2020 and emphasised that many more conflicts remained undocumented. [1] Gas flaring and oil spills in the Niger Delta contribute to local conflict. Climate activists blockade British Airports Authority's headquarters for day of action.

  3. Environmental justice - Wikipedia

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    Indigenous peoples experienced environmental devastation of a genocidal kind before federal recognition. Origins of the environmental justice movement can be traced to the Indigenous Environmental Movement, which has involved Indigenous populations fighting against displacement and assimilation for sovereignty and land rights for hundreds of years.

  4. Environmental movement in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Environmental Justice movement seeks to link "social" and "ecological" environmental concerns, while at the same time keeping environmentalists conscious of the dynamics in their own movement, i.e. racism, sexism, homophobia, classicism, and other malaises of the dominant culture.

  5. Trump's executive orders take aim at environmental justice ...

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    “The environmental justice movement had worked for years to bring these issues to the federal government, and it really began to provide a more equitable way of looking at the distribution of ...

  6. Environmental conflict - Wikipedia

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    Outcomes of local conflicts are increasingly influenced by trans-national environmental justice networks that comprise the global environmental justice movement. [1] [9] Environmental conflict can complicate response to natural disaster or exacerbate existing conflicts – especially in the context of geopolitical disputes or where communities ...

  7. Warren County 'catalyzed' environmental justice movement - AOL

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    Sep. 22—WARRENTON — It began as a local issue, but it became a national — and even an international — cause. When the state selected a site near the Afton community in Warren County to ...

  8. EPA Administrator Regan announces new environmental justice ...

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    Protests against a PCB landfill in Warren County were pivotal in the birth of the United States’ environmental justice movement. Skip to main content. News. 24/7 help. For premium support please ...

  9. North Carolina PCB Protest, 1982 - Wikipedia

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    The protests failed to stop the construction of the facility in Afton, though they have been widely cited for inspiring a new type of environmental justice movement in which the residents of poor and minority communities addressed the impacts of toxic waste and industrial activities in their communities. [2]