Chronicles from the environmental justice frontline
- Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2001
- 279p xi
Contents 1. Environmental justice struggles in perspective; 2. Roots of environmental justice in Louisiana; 3. The Nation's first major environmental justice judgment: the LES Clairborne Uranium Enrichment Facility; 4. EPA's environmental justice test case: the Shintech PVC Plant; 5. Media savvy Cajuns and Houma Indians fight Exxon's oilfield waste in Grand Bois; 6. Stress and the politics of living on a superfund site - the agriculture street municipal landfill (with Amanda Leiker); 7. The Empire Strikes Back: backlash and implications for the future; First hand resources on environmental justice struggles: Web sites; Further readings.
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1. Environmental Justice - Louisiane - Case Studies 2. Environmental Policy - Louisiane - Case Studies