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Two accounts from the Chicago Tribune and the NY Times about further discoveries of toxic waste sites.

An indepth article from November 1980 looking at challenges regarding protecting environments and humans from hazardous waste.

A Los Angeles Times article explaining the benefits of giving trees and other environmental entities full legal standing in the American judicial system.

Ronald Reagan swept the 1980 presidential election, garnering 489 out of a total of 538 electoral college votes. His main opponent, the incumbent Jimmy Carter, was accused of hurting American economic interests while carrying a weak foreign policy

Two articles and advice about green consumption

The image accompanies the New York Times' review of The Last Whole Earth Catalog

A newspaper article in the Washington Post about student environmental concerns and activism.

In 1987, the United Church of Christ (UCC), headed by executive director Benjamin Chavis Jr., published a seminal report about the relationship of race and socioeconomic class to contaminated waste sites across the U.S. The UCC's assessment revealed…

The "Toxic Wastes and Race" report that the United Church of Christ published in 1987 included a map illustrating the metropolitan areas where the greatest number of African- American residents lived near toxic waste sites. For instance, 99.8 percent…

In February of 1979, the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry held a subcommittee meeting in Middlebury, Vermont to receive proposals on Rare II Wilderness sites across the United States. After three days of proposals and hearings, the…