Essay: Bhopal – after 40 years, ongoing effects of world’s worst industrial disaster show environmental racism is alive and well
M SUDHIT SELVARAJ, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at the 40 year fight for justice for survivors of the 1984 disaster in central India…
Canada votes to collect data to document “environmental racism”
Toronto, CanadaThomson Reuters Foundation Canada will collect data on the impact on siting a disproportionate number of polluting industries and landfills in areas inhabited by racial minority communities, federal lawmakers voted Wednesday. The bill aims to tackle “environmental racism”, where Indigenous, Black and other racial minority communities are exposed to higher levels of dirty air, […]