EPA Journal, Volumes 18-19The Office, 1992 |
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... America's minorities - Hispanics , Native Americans , Asians , African Americans , the poor of any color - has in one way or another been left out of the environmental cleanup of the past two decades . Black children , as a whole , have ...
... America's minorities - Hispanics , Native Americans , Asians , African Americans , the poor of any color - has in one way or another been left out of the environmental cleanup of the past two decades . Black children , as a whole , have ...
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... Americans can live in Environmental equity should be the highest priority for policy makers if they are indeed ... American society to help ensure an equitable environmental policy . He also put together an internal workgroup to ...
... Americans can live in Environmental equity should be the highest priority for policy makers if they are indeed ... American society to help ensure an equitable environmental policy . He also put together an internal workgroup to ...
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... American neighborhoods . From 1970 to 1978 , three of the four privately owned landfills that were used to dispose of Houston's garbage were located in African American neighborhoods . Although African Americans made up only 28 percent ...
... American neighborhoods . From 1970 to 1978 , three of the four privately owned landfills that were used to dispose of Houston's garbage were located in African American neighborhoods . Although African Americans made up only 28 percent ...
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... American neighborhoods . African American neighborhoods from South Central Los Angeles to Southeast - side Chicago to Rahway , New Jersey , are vulnerable to waste facility siting . As recently as 1991 , Residents Involved in Saving the ...
... American neighborhoods . African American neighborhoods from South Central Los Angeles to Southeast - side Chicago to Rahway , New Jersey , are vulnerable to waste facility siting . As recently as 1991 , Residents Involved in Saving the ...
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... Americans may consume much greater amounts of Great Lakes fish than the general population and hence be at greater risk for dietary exposure to toxic chemicals . To date , most studies of fish consumption have looked at licensed sport ...
... Americans may consume much greater amounts of Great Lakes fish than the general population and hence be at greater risk for dietary exposure to toxic chemicals . To date , most studies of fish consumption have looked at licensed sport ...
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Page 59 - All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.
Page 59 - Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech.
Page 30 - The Parties should cooperate to promote a supportive and open international economic system...
Page 30 - States have, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law, the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental policies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other States or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.
Page 60 - In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it.
Page 61 - We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes—something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters
Page 60 - A land ethic of course cannot prevent the alteration, management, and use of these 'resources,' but it does affirm their right to continued existence, and, at least in spots, their continued existence in a natural state.
Page 30 - States should effectively cooperate to discourage or prevent the relocation and transfer to other States of any activities and substances that cause severe environmental degradation or are found to be harmful to human health.
Page 50 - We, the people of color, gathered together at this multinational People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, to begin to build a national and international movement of all peoples of color to fight the destruction and taking of our lands and communities, do hereby re-establish our spiritual interdependence to the sacredness of our Mother Earth; to respect and celebrate each of our cultures, languages and beliefs about the natural world and our roles in healing ourselves...
Page 14 - EPA laws such as the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) have the clear potential in certain circumstances to ban substances that are of particular danger.