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PCB Contamination

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Essay #1: PCB Contamination on Warren County

Had I had the strength to do something, I would have tremored every part of my body as I witnessed the atrocity committed by the “midnight dumpers". As burns and the Ward Transformer Company laid waste to me and my body, I saw how the people that reside on me were harmed by the contamination of PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls). Though Burns and his business men were arrested soon after, they still had managed to get the last laugh. Since the late 1970s I became a toxic landfill full of contaminated byproducts where legislation and government failed to manage my wellbeing as well as protect the health of nearby residents. State officials were slow to react and I had to succumb to this contamination until finally, someone spoke up for me. With the unjust actions that happened against me, came a strong and empowering movement that would force government to stop …show more content…

By 1990, he wrote a book titled “Dumping in Dixie” as well as “Overcoming Racism in Environmental Decision Making”, where he proposed a framework for environmental justice. Bullard's work ultimately led to the convergence of social justice and environmental movements into what is called the environmental justice movement. From this movement, The 1991 First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit was created. The Summit aimed to broaden the environmental justice movement to further include issues of public health, worker safety, resource allocation and community empowerment ( Muller 2009). Since my incident, people finally began paying more attention to how they manage their built environment. People have rights to environmental protection and any sign of harmful impact should be prevented at all cost. Government eventually responded to this movement and created laws that would strengthen this

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