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- The Environmental Justice Movement
History - Championed primarily by African-Americans, Latinos, Asians and Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, the environmental justice movement addresses a statistical fact: people who live, work and play in America's most polluted environments are most often people of color and the poor.
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Switchboard Blogs
- We have the right to know what is in the air we breathe - A guest blog from Dominic Pierceall
- posted by Diane Bailey, 6/17/13
- The "New Bioeconomy": Synthetic Biology's Implications for the Environment, Health and Justice
- posted by Jennifer Sass, 6/5/13
- Let's End a Stinking Era
- posted by Giulia C.S. Good Stefani, 5/23/13
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- Hidden Danger
- A large percentage of U.S. Latinos live and work in urban and agricultural areas where they face heightened danger of exposure to air pollution, unsafe drinking water, pesticides, and lead and mercury contamination.
- Asthma and Air Pollution
- Bad air can bring on asthma attacks; tracking air quality and controlling pollution from cars, factories and power plants can help.
