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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

GreenBiz

Integration of EJ as a major component of social justice that substantially reduces income inequality, health care, housing and other quality of life disparities. EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. Protecting at-risk populations.

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A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

DeSmogBlog

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. Emerging research also connects it to diabetes and reproductive problems.

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In Texas, a battle is brewing over a Trump EPA official’s confidential emails

Grist

For instance, just a few years prior, he had argued that increasing smog levels might have health benefits — a view at odds with decades of research. In one interview, he went so far as to suggest that reducing ozone levels might result in worse public health outcomes. “I

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

AGreenLiving

EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. A prominent example of these characteristics is the Formosa Plastics Group proposal to build a $9.4 Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to “residential/industrial.”

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

AGreenLiving

EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. A prominent example of these characteristics is the Formosa Plastics Group proposal to build a $9.4 Such plans were enabled by a local 2014 decision that rezoned Formosa’s property to “residential/industrial.”