Some Recent News

Environmental justice happens nowadays too. There are lots of recent news. Like for example, in Kingsley Park in Buffalo, Nevada. The site had once been a location for a company that produce arsenic medicines.Many people saw workers dump materials into apt on the site. When the city acquired the location in 1967, works dug up the soil and the citizens used the soil for their gardening. They soil was contaminated and people got diseases. When authorities closed down the site in 1988. People still got sick after they cleaned up in 1992, the neighborhood where the white people lived in, they got an incinerator which blocked those contaminations.But only a few black people had access to it. Here is the full story

Kind of blurry, but this where the park was.

Another case is in Moss Point and Pascagoula, they lie on the Mississippi's gulf coast. Moss Point is a poor black, middle-class town, while Pascagoula is mostly white and more rich. In the late 1970's, Pascagoula experience waste disposal problems. They needed to build an incinerator, but the citizens in Pascagoula protested about having it in their community. So they built an incinerator in Moss Point, but it was owned by Pascagoula. The two cities were peaceful until December 1991, the Pascagoula city council passed a vote to send their medical wastes to be burned at the incinerator. This Moss Point residents into an uproar and claims of environmental racism. You read more over here at this website.

This is where Moss Point is.