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=====Community Groups Sue EPA to Tighten Its Incinerator Rules=====
=====Community Groups Sue EPA to Tighten Its Incinerator Rules=====
[https://www.wastedive.com/news/epa-lmwc-air-emissions-petition-review-grassroots-groups/821075/ | Cole Rosengren | Waste Dive | May 2026]
[https://www.wastedive.com/news/epa-lmwc-air-emissions-petition-review-grassroots-groups/821075/ | Cole Rosengren | Waste Dive | May 2026]
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  This peer-reviewed article describes community-based air monitoring near the former Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery. It is useful for documenting how fenceline communities affected by refinery operations organized with researchers to monitor benzene and other volatile organic compounds during decommissioning and redevelopment.
  This peer-reviewed article describes community-based air monitoring near the former Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery. It is useful for documenting how fenceline communities affected by refinery operations organized with researchers to monitor benzene and other volatile organic compounds during decommissioning and redevelopment.


=====‘We Want to Live. They Want to Burn Trash’: Chester Residents Raise Environmental Racism Concerns Over Incinerator with Covanta=====
====='We Want to Live. They Want to Burn Trash': Chester Residents Raise Environmental Racism Concerns Over Incinerator with Covanta=====
[https://whyy.org/articles/we-want-to-live-they-want-to-burn-trash-chester-residents-raise-environmental-racism-concerns-over-incinerator-with-covanta/ | Kenny Cooper | WHYY | May 3, 2021]
[https://whyy.org/articles/we-want-to-live-they-want-to-burn-trash-chester-residents-raise-environmental-racism-concerns-over-incinerator-with-covanta/ | Kenny Cooper | WHYY | May 3, 2021]
  This article covers Chester, Pennsylvania, a predominantly Black city burdened by one of the nation’s largest waste incinerators. Residents and advocates describe the Covanta facility as part of a wider pattern of environmental racism in which outside trash is burned in a low-income Black community.
  This article covers Chester, Pennsylvania, a predominantly Black city burdened by one of the nation's largest waste incinerators. Residents and advocates describe the Covanta facility as part of a wider pattern of environmental racism in which outside trash is burned in a low-income Black community.


=====Environmental Racism in Chester=====
=====Environmental Racism in Chester=====
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=====What Is Environmental Racism?=====
=====What Is Environmental Racism?=====
[https://chesterpaej.org/what-is-environmental-racism/ | Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living | CRCQL | No date listed]
[https://chesterpaej.org/what-is-environmental-racism/ | Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living | CRCQL | No date listed]
  This community resource explains environmental racism through Chester’s experience with waste and industrial facilities. It describes Chester as a major example of how polluting industries can become concentrated in low-income Black communities with limited political power.
  This community resource explains environmental racism through Chester's experience with waste and industrial facilities. It describes Chester as a major example of how polluting industries can become concentrated in low-income Black communities with limited political power.


=====Unraveling Environmental Racism, Here and Now: What the South Bronx and Other Communities Deserve=====
=====Unraveling Environmental Racism, Here and Now: What the South Bronx and Other Communities Deserve=====
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  This article discusses environmental racism in the South Bronx, where highways, waste facilities, industrial uses, and freight infrastructure have long burdened a largely Black and Latino community. It argues that the neighborhood deserves investment, clean air, and protection from cumulative pollution.
  This article discusses environmental racism in the South Bronx, where highways, waste facilities, industrial uses, and freight infrastructure have long burdened a largely Black and Latino community. It argues that the neighborhood deserves investment, clean air, and protection from cumulative pollution.


=====From “Asthma Alley� to Green Spaces: A Field Trip with South Bronx Unite=====
=====From 'Asthma Alley' to Green Spaces: A Field Trip with South Bronx Unite=====
[https://lamont.columbia.edu/news/asthma-alley-green-spaces-field-trip-south-bronx-unite | Conor O’Brien | Columbia Climate School | July 11, 2024]
[https://lamont.columbia.edu/news/asthma-alley-green-spaces-field-trip-south-bronx-unite | Conor O'Brien | Columbia Climate School | July 11, 2024]
  This article describes the South Bronx as a major environmental justice case, including the neighborhood’s heavy exposure to highways, truck traffic, waste infrastructure, and poor air quality. It is useful for documenting how community groups organize against concentrated pollution in Black and Latino neighborhoods.
  This article describes the South Bronx as a major environmental justice case, including the neighborhood's heavy exposure to highways, truck traffic, waste infrastructure, and poor air quality. It is useful for documenting how community groups organize against concentrated pollution in Black and Latino neighborhoods.


=====What Does Sustainability Mean in the Bronx?=====
=====What Does Sustainability Mean in the Bronx?=====
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=====Breathe At Your Own Risk: Transit Justice in West Harlem=====
=====Breathe At Your Own Risk: Transit Justice in West Harlem=====
[https://www.reimaginerpe.org/node/326 | Peggy Shepard | Race, Poverty & the Environment | Spring 2007]
[https://www.reimaginerpe.org/node/326 | Peggy Shepard | Race, Poverty & the Environment | Spring 2007]
  This article discusses West Harlem’s fight against diesel bus depots, sewage infrastructure, and transportation-related pollution. It is useful for showing how transit infrastructure and public facilities were concentrated in a community of color, contributing to asthma and other health burdens.
  This article discusses West Harlem's fight against diesel bus depots, sewage infrastructure, and transportation-related pollution. It is useful for showing how transit infrastructure and public facilities were concentrated in a community of color, contributing to asthma and other health burdens.


=====The MTA, Bus Depots and Race=====
=====The MTA, Bus Depots and Race=====
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=====The Godmother of the Environmental Justice Movement Speaks Out=====
=====The Godmother of the Environmental Justice Movement Speaks Out=====
[https://www.edf.org/degrees/godmother-environmental-justice-movement-speaks-out | Environmental Defense Fund | EDF | No date listed]
[https://www.edf.org/degrees/godmother-environmental-justice-movement-speaks-out | Environmental Defense Fund | EDF | No date listed]
  This article profiles Peggy Shepard and WE ACT’s early work against pollution in Harlem. It describes how activists challenged the placement of toxic industry and polluting infrastructure in minority communities as environmental racism.
  This article profiles Peggy Shepard and WE ACT's early work against pollution in Harlem. It describes how activists challenged the placement of toxic industry and polluting infrastructure in minority communities as environmental racism.


=====Issues of Community Empowerment=====
=====Issues of Community Empowerment=====
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=====Maryland Faces Civil Rights Complaint After Approving Gas Plant in Black Community=====
=====Maryland Faces Civil Rights Complaint After Approving Gas Plant in Black Community=====
[https://earthjustice.org/press/2016/maryland-faces-civil-rights-complaint-after-approving-gas-plant-in-black-community | Earthjustice | Earthjustice | May 11, 2016]
[https://earthjustice.org/press/2016/maryland-faces-civil-rights-complaint-after-approving-gas-plant-in-black-community | Earthjustice | Earthjustice | May 11, 2016]
  This press release describes a civil-rights complaint challenging Maryland’s approval of a gas-fired power plant in Brandywine. Community advocates argued that the permitting reflected environmental racism because the community was majority African American and already burdened by power plants.
  This press release describes a civil-rights complaint challenging Maryland's approval of a gas-fired power plant in Brandywine. Community advocates argued that the permitting reflected environmental racism because the community was majority African American and already burdened by power plants.


=====Environmental Racism Prevalent in Brandywine, Maryland=====
=====Environmental Racism Prevalent in Brandywine, Maryland=====
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  This article reports on New York City environmental justice data showing that communities of color face disproportionate pollution burdens. It is useful for documenting modern municipal recognition of unequal exposure to pollution, heat, flooding, and other environmental harms.
  This article reports on New York City environmental justice data showing that communities of color face disproportionate pollution burdens. It is useful for documenting modern municipal recognition of unequal exposure to pollution, heat, flooding, and other environmental harms.


=====“Asthma Alley�: Why Minorities Bear Burden of Pollution Inequity Caused by White People=====
====='Asthma Alley': Why Minorities Bear Burden of Pollution Inequity Caused by White People=====
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/04/new-york-south-bronx-minorities-pollution-inequity | Oliver Milman | The Guardian | April 4, 2019]
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/04/new-york-south-bronx-minorities-pollution-inequity | Oliver Milman | The Guardian | April 4, 2019]
  This article focuses on the South Bronx and other communities where people of color bear disproportionate pollution burdens. It connects traffic, industrial siting, asthma, and air pollution to long-standing environmental racism.
  This article focuses on the South Bronx and other communities where people of color bear disproportionate pollution burdens. It connects traffic, industrial siting, asthma, and air pollution to long-standing environmental racism.
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=====Discriminatory Environmental Permitting in Camden, N.J.=====
=====Discriminatory Environmental Permitting in Camden, N.J.=====
[https://pubintlaw.org/cases-and-projects/camden-n-j/ | Public Interest Law Center
[https://pubintlaw.org/cases-and-projects/camden-n-j/ | Public Interest Law Center | Public Interest Law Center | No date listed]
| Public Interest Law Center | No date listed]
  This case summary describes Camden, New Jersey as a 90-percent-minority city burdened by a regional incinerator, regional sewage treatment plant, and multiple Superfund sites. It is useful for documenting environmental racism in municipal permitting and cumulative pollution.
  This case summary describes Camden, New Jersey as a 90-percent-minority city burdened by a regional incinerator, regional sewage treatment plant, and multiple Superfund sites. It is useful for documenting environmental racism in municipal permitting and cumulative pollution.


=====Fighting for Air=====
=====Fighting for Air=====
[https://shelterforce.org/2002/11/01/fighting-for-air/ | Shelterforce | Shelterforce | November 1, 2002]
[https://shelterforce.org/2002/11/01/fighting-for-air/ | Shelterforce | Shelterforce | November 1, 2002]
  This article covers Camden’s Waterfront South neighborhood and the fight against discriminatory environmental permitting. It is useful for documenting how residents challenged a dense concentration of polluting facilities in a low-income community of color.
  This article covers Camden's Waterfront South neighborhood and the fight against discriminatory environmental permitting. It is useful for documenting how residents challenged a dense concentration of polluting facilities in a low-income community of color.


=====The Challenge of Environmental Justice=====
=====The Challenge of Environmental Justice=====
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=====Air Quality Injustices Put Neighbors in Two Local Towns at Risk=====
=====Air Quality Injustices Put Neighbors in Two Local Towns at Risk=====
[https://6abc.com/post/environment-inequity-race-racial-disparities/11152688/ | 6abc Philadelphia | 6abc Action News | October 26, 2021]
[https://6abc.com/post/environment-inequity-race-racial-disparities/11152688/ | 6abc Philadelphia | 6abc Action News | October 26, 2021]
  This article discusses air pollution burdens in New Jersey environmental justice communities, including Camden’s Waterfront South. It is useful for documenting how neighborhoods with high minority and low-income populations face disproportionate pollution.
  This article discusses air pollution burdens in New Jersey environmental justice communities, including Camden's Waterfront South. It is useful for documenting how neighborhoods with high minority and low-income populations face disproportionate pollution.


=====What New Jersey’s New Environmental Justice Law Will Mean for Newark and Camden=====
=====What New Jersey's New Environmental Justice Law Will Mean for Newark and Camden=====
[https://grist.org/justice/new-jersey-environmental-justice-law-covanta-incinerator-newark-camden/ | Justine Calma | Grist | July 23, 2020]
[https://grist.org/justice/new-jersey-environmental-justice-law-covanta-incinerator-newark-camden/ | Justine Calma | Grist | July 23, 2020]
  This article discusses Newark and Camden as pollution-burdened communities targeted by New Jersey’s environmental justice law. It is useful for documenting garbage incinerators, sewage treatment, ports, airports, and chemical corridors in communities of color.
  This article discusses Newark and Camden as pollution-burdened communities targeted by New Jersey's environmental justice law. It is useful for documenting garbage incinerators, sewage treatment, ports, airports, and chemical corridors in communities of color.


=====Ironbound Unyielding=====
=====Ironbound Unyielding=====
[https://earthjustice.org/feature/ironbound-unyielding | Earthjustice | Earthjustice | January 22, 2021]
[https://earthjustice.org/feature/ironbound-unyielding | Earthjustice | Earthjustice | January 22, 2021]
  This feature profiles Newark’s Ironbound neighborhood, where residents live near a garbage incinerator, sewage-treatment plants, power plants, port activity, and heavy truck traffic. It is useful for documenting a largely immigrant community’s fight against being treated as a sacrifice zone.
  This feature profiles Newark's Ironbound neighborhood, where residents live near a garbage incinerator, sewage-treatment plants, power plants, port activity, and heavy truck traffic. It is useful for documenting a largely immigrant community's fight against being treated as a sacrifice zone.


=====With N.J.’s Tough New Environmental Justice Law in Place, Why Is Newark in Line for Another Power Plant?=====
=====With N.J.'s Tough New Environmental Justice Law in Place, Why Is Newark in Line for Another Power Plant?=====
[https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15112024/newark-new-jersey-ironbound-neighborhood-environmental-justice/ | Emilie Lounsberry | Inside Climate News | November 15, 2024]
[https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15112024/newark-new-jersey-ironbound-neighborhood-environmental-justice/ | Emilie Lounsberry | Inside Climate News | November 15, 2024]
  This article reports on a proposed power plant in Newark’s Ironbound neighborhood despite New Jersey’s environmental justice law. It is useful for documenting ongoing fights over adding new polluting infrastructure in an already overburdened community of color.
  This article reports on a proposed power plant in Newark's Ironbound neighborhood despite New Jersey's environmental justice law. It is useful for documenting ongoing fights over adding new polluting infrastructure in an already overburdened community of color.


=====Free to Breathe Clean Air=====
=====Free to Breathe Clean Air=====
[https://surdna.org/news-insights/free-to-breathe-clean-air/ | Surdna Foundation | Surdna Foundation | September 23, 2025]
[https://surdna.org/news-insights/free-to-breathe-clean-air/ | Surdna Foundation | Surdna Foundation | September 23, 2025]
  This article describes Newark’s Ironbound as a multiply burdened neighborhood with power plants, a major garbage incinerator, a sewage facility, port traffic, and industrial pollution. It is useful for documenting cumulative pollution burdens in a community of color.
  This article describes Newark's Ironbound as a multiply burdened neighborhood with power plants, a major garbage incinerator, a sewage facility, port traffic, and industrial pollution. It is useful for documenting cumulative pollution burdens in a community of color.


=====Don’t Trash the Ironbound=====
=====Don't Trash the Ironbound=====
[https://www.climaterealityproject.org/story/dont-trash-ironbound | Climate Reality Project | Climate Reality Project | May 5, 2022]
[https://www.climaterealityproject.org/story/dont-trash-ironbound | Climate Reality Project | Climate Reality Project | May 5, 2022]
  This article focuses on waste incineration in Newark’s Ironbound neighborhood. It is useful for documenting how trash from elsewhere is burned in a largely immigrant and working-class community already burdened by multiple pollution sources.
  This article focuses on waste incineration in Newark's Ironbound neighborhood. It is useful for documenting how trash from elsewhere is burned in a largely immigrant and working-class community already burdened by multiple pollution sources.


=====Discriminatory Environmental Permitting in Camden, New Jersey=====
=====Discriminatory Environmental Permitting in Camden, New Jersey=====
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  This case summary describes Camden as a 90-percent-minority city burdened by a regional incinerator, sewage treatment plant, and multiple Superfund sites. It is useful for documenting how environmental permitting can concentrate polluting facilities in communities of color.
  This case summary describes Camden as a 90-percent-minority city burdened by a regional incinerator, sewage treatment plant, and multiple Superfund sites. It is useful for documenting how environmental permitting can concentrate polluting facilities in communities of color.


=====“Enough Pollution� in Low-Income New Jersey Area with One Power Plant=====
====='Enough Pollution' in Low-Income New Jersey Area with One Power Plant=====
[https://apnews.com/article/new-jersey-environment-justice-energy-climate-phil-murphy-0c0e9943ea5ad7b4f6f7fee94a4ab0cc | Wayne Parry | Associated Press | March 1, 2023]
[https://apnews.com/article/new-jersey-environment-justice-energy-climate-phil-murphy-0c0e9943ea5ad7b4f6f7fee94a4ab0cc | Wayne Parry | Associated Press | March 1, 2023]
  This article reports on community opposition to additional power-plant pollution in an already overburdened New Jersey area. It is useful for documenting how environmental justice laws are tested when new polluters seek permits in low-income and minority communities.
  This article reports on community opposition to additional power-plant pollution in an already overburdened New Jersey area. It is useful for documenting how environmental justice laws are tested when new polluters seek permits in low-income and minority communities.
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  This article discusses neighborhood trash infrastructure and environmental justice in New Jersey. It is useful for documenting how waste facilities and related truck traffic can burden low-income communities and communities of color.
  This article discusses neighborhood trash infrastructure and environmental justice in New Jersey. It is useful for documenting how waste facilities and related truck traffic can burden low-income communities and communities of color.


=====This Juneteenth, Black New Jerseyans Still Can’t Breathe Free=====
=====This Juneteenth, Black New Jerseyans Still Can't Breathe Free=====
[https://www.njlcv.org/news/juneteenth-black-new-jerseyans-still-cant-breathe-free-end-environmental-racism-opinion | New Jersey League of Conservation Voters | NJLCV | No date listed]
[https://www.njlcv.org/news/juneteenth-black-new-jerseyans-still-cant-breathe-free-end-environmental-racism-opinion | New Jersey League of Conservation Voters | NJLCV | No date listed]
  This opinion article discusses environmental racism affecting Black neighborhoods in New Jersey. It is useful for documenting how toxic air, polluted water, lack of green space, and industrial siting continue to affect communities of color.
  This opinion article discusses environmental racism affecting Black neighborhoods in New Jersey. It is useful for documenting how toxic air, polluted water, lack of green space, and industrial siting continue to affect communities of color.
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