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- Title
From the front lines of the movement for environmental justice.
- Authors
Hinds, Cathy; Roy, Lanny
- Abstract
This article features three stories, each reflect an experience of toxic poisoning and a commitment to grassroots organizing as a vehicle for change. This stories are culled from a report compiled by the Highlander Center's Community Environmental Health Program, which brings together victims of environmental hazards to talk about strategies to stop poisoning. The first is about the social effects of the poisoned drinking water caused by careless disposal practices of McKin Co., a hazardous waste disposal firm. The water was contaminated with three volatile chemicals: trichloroethylene, dimethyl sulfide, and trichloroethane. The next story is of an African American male worker in Pittsburgh Plate Glass chemical plant whose lung was damaged by attending to a chlorine leak. He developed severe cough after the incident and was told by company doctors his condition is just bronchitis. A second consultation with his family doctor revealed that had badly damaged lungs. Eventually, he was dismissed from work. Third was a story of a woman activist whose house was bulldozed by a gas and oil company in Kentucky. She had to fight the company for over two years and spent $2,000 in lawyers' fees and geologist before finally succeeding to get the company to repair what they destroyed.
- Subjects
PPG Industries Inc.; ENVIRONMENTAL degradation; ACTIVISM; ACTIVISTS; WATER pollution; PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of chlorine
- Publication
Social Policy, 1992, Vol 22, Issue 4, p12
- ISSN
0037-7783
- Publication type
Article