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Dumping in Dixie is a 1990 book by the American professor, author, activist, and environmental sociologist Robert D. Bullard. [1] Bullard spotlights the quintessence of the economic, social, and psychological consequences induced by the siting of noxious facilities in mobilizing the African American community. [ 1 ]
Environmental harmful product dumping (“environmental dumping”) is the practice of transfrontier shipment of waste (household waste, industrial/nuclear waste, etc.) from one country to another. The goal is to take the waste to a country that has less strict environmental laws , or environmental laws that are not strictly enforced.
The act regulates the ocean dumping of all material beyond the territorial limit (3 miles (4.8 km) from shore) and prevents or strictly limits dumping material that "would adversely affect human health, welfare, or amenities, or the marine environment, ecological systems, or economic potentialities". [4]
The Origins of Modern Environmental Thought. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-2461-7. Fox, Stephen R. (1981). John Muir and his legacy: the American conservation movement. Little Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-316-29110-1. Gottlieb, Robert (1993). Forcing the spring: the transformation of the American environmental movement. Island ...
The U.S. Department of Justice secured a settlement in its environmental justice investigation into Houston's response to illegal dumping in Black and Latino neighborhoods, the department and the ...
Historians pose a strange paradox regarding Nixon. In 1970-1971 he unexpectedly emerged as a great environmentalist who deserves credit for several of the most important environmental laws in American history. By 1972, however, he suddenly moved far to the right, despising environmentalists as left-wing fanatics who would bankrupt the economy.
The offshore Palos Verdes Shelf dumping site is an "Operable Unit" of that Montrose Chemical Superfund Site. [ 5 ] [ 1 ] In 1990, the United States and California filed lawsuits against several companies that had industrial facilities near the Palos Verdes peninsula, citing damages to the nearby marine environment.
By 1982, the state had selected the rural unincorporated Warren County community of Afton to store the PCB-contaminated soil and similar waste collected from Ward's illegal dumping sites. [4] Disposal of PCBs had been regulated under the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, but the Act did not allow public participation in the selection of ...