pollution

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• SOURCE: NPR
  8/30/2021
  

  The Globe's Last Supply of Leaded Gasoline is Gone, Ending a Toxic Era

  Despite knowledge of the toxicity of lead, gasoline refiners added lead compounds to gasoline beginning in the 1920s, launching an era of massive low-grade lead poisoning. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/29/2021
  

  I Wrote About This Environmental Injustice Decades Ago. It Hasn’t Changed

  by Robert Bullard

  A vacancy on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will test Biden's stated commitment to advancing environmental justice. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/7/2021
  

  ‘One Oppressive Economy Begets Another’

  Slavery and Jim Crow deprived Black communities in Louisiana of wealth and power, and enabled contemporary environmental racism. But slavery-era cemeteries are becoming part of efforts by those communities to fight back against polluters. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/28/2021
  

  People of Color Breathe More Hazardous Air. The Sources Are Everywhere

  The findings of a new study confirm what environmental justice activists and scholars like Robert Bullard have been arguing for decades: minority communities in the United States are susceptible to a disproportionate share of environmental health hazards from multiple sources. 

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  4/12/2021
  

  Shocking Environmental Disaster Uncovered off California Coast after 70 Years

  A marine scientist using a remote submarine camera recently discovered the visible portion of what may be as many as a half-million barrels of DDT dumped between Long Beach and Catalina Island when new environmental regulations banned the pesticide. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/19/2020
  

  Erin Brockovich to Joe Biden: Are You Kidding Me?

  "Are you really listening to the science or are you listening to an industry insider, who is controlling the message?"

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• SOURCE: JSTOR Daily
  8/18/2020
  

  The Environmental Costs of War

  The effort to secure and refine aluminum ore for war materiel was environmentally damaging and previews the globalized impact of commodity supply chains. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/12/20
  

  Even for an air pollution historian, these past weeks have been a shock

  by Nancy Cushing

  City dwellers in southeast Australia have been forced to take a crash course in the finer points of air pollution. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/21/19
  

  How decades of L.A. smog led to California’s war with Trump over car pollution

  President Trump said he would revoke California’s ability to set its own auto emissions standards, a provision that gave the most populous state significant sway over the car industry.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-21-18
  

  Smog and Disasters Spurred the Laws Trump Wants to Undo

  The Trump administration has made eliminating federal regulations a priority, and an increasing number of environmental rules are under threat.

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• SOURCE: The Harvard Gazette
  5-30-17
  

  Study of 14th-century Black Plague challenges conventional wisdom about pollution

  The authors found that widespread environmental pollution did not begin with the Industrial Revolution in the 1700s and 1800s.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  4-21-17
  

  Pollution Hurts Some People More Than Others. That’s Been True for Centuries.

  Concerns regarding a lack of adequate sanitation to combat pollution date back to the mid-19th century, yet it wasn’t until the late 20th century that environmental protection emerged as a nationwide grassroots effort to address what activists have identified as environmental racism.

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• 6-19-15
  

  Could Scientists Be Wrong About Global Warming?

  by Dr. James Powell

  These 4 reasons show why it’s very unlikely.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  2-9-15
  

  Scientists discovered air pollution that’s nearly 500 years old

  Humans have been spewing pollution into the atmosphere for a long, long time

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• SOURCE: NYT
  5-18-14
  

  Colossal Buddhist statues in China being rescued from soot

  The relics had survived the rise and fall of dynasties, modern wars and the Cultural Revolution. But the scourge of a more prosperous China — industrial pollution — had been eating away at the sandstone.

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  10-31-13
  

  China’s Smog Can’t Compete With London’s Pea Soup

  by Stephen Mihm

  London's infamous pea soup fog remains unchallenged as the worst air pollution in history.

• SOURCE: Slate
  1-17-13
  

  Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Is China’s Communist Party Choking?

  Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor’s Professor of History at UC Irvine, the author of China in the 21stCentury: What Everyone Needs to Know and co-editor of Chinese Characters: Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land.