A series of New York Times articles from December 1984 covering the Bhopal gas disaster and questions about corporations, toxic gas, communities, technology, and first/third world legal and economic relationships.
Civil Rights leader Benjamin Chavis announces and describes in an Atlanta newspaper the upcoming First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit in DC.
An article on a new protest movement emerging, with direct ties to Civil Rights movement but with new enemy: PCB waste site proposed for rural Warren County, NY.
A photograph showing civil rights leader Floyd McKissick being carried away and arrested by police officers during a demonstration in protest of EPA siting of a PCB disposal site in Warren County, N Y.
A newspaper article reporting on fears of dioxin contamination in Times Beach, MO in the wake of toxic waste use in the past followed by a major flood.
An exposition and explanation of the challenges of trash disposal and resource management from the county executive (Peter Shapiro) of Essex County, NJ.
A brief notice of a march at a Dioxin plant to draw attention to Agent Orange, dioxin, and their effects on Vietnam soldiers and Newark residents living near the plant.