Tag: USA
“A Horror Story” – How the Law Simultaneously Addresses and Facilitates Environmental Racism in ‘Cancer Alley’
by Leyla Bakhoukh-Choy This blog is part of the ‘Environmental Justice and the Law – A Student Blog Symposium.’ Take a deep breath. Now imagine the air you just breathed in is carcinogenic. This may sound like the premise of a dystopian novel, but for residents living in the communities along the banks of the Mississippi…
The Flint Water Crisis: A Real American Horror Story
by Eva-Mae Eighteen This blog is part of the ‘Environmental Justice and the Law – A Student Blog Symposium.’ In international jurisdictions, the State must address environmental injustice, but in the city of Flint, the State itself was the perpetuator of injustice. Like a chess game, white versus black, the Flint Water Crisis demonstrated a…
