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Apr
Canada, Chemical Valley, Aamjiwnaang First Nation, Ontario
The Aamjiwnaang First Nation encompasses more than 3000 acres with one side to the St. Clair River and the other three sides with petroleum refineries. There ...
19
Apr
Canada, Alberta Oil Sands
The Alberta oil sands in western Canada, a large oil mining region, are in the homeland of the Dene, Cree, and Metis People in Treaty 8 territory.
Visible...
21
Aug
United States, Pennsylvania
Southwestern Pennsylvania is home to both the largest producing underground coal mine in North America and over three thousand fracked gas drilling and midstre...
21
Aug
United States, Ohio
In Eastern Ohio, residents are organizing to try to stop the petrochemical buildout along the Ohio River. An ethane cracker has been proposed by PTT Global Che...
21
Aug
United States, Louisiana
“Cancer Alley” (or “Death Alley”) refers to a stretch of River Parishes between the cities of Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana, which contains more than ...
18
Aug
United States, Texas Port Arthur
Port Arthur is home to the United States’ largest refinery, to numerous other Petrochemical facilities, as well as tank farms, railroad lines, and shipping fac...
18
Aug
United States, Texas Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi is in danger of heavy oil industry take over. It is home to the biggest petrochemical cracker plant in the world.
Industry needs lots of wate...
18
Aug
United States, California
In Southern California, in Wilmington, Carson, and West Long Beach, which are situated on the ancestral homelands of the Tongva people, communities are forced ...
04
Sep
United States, Ohio, East Palestine
A train carrying vinyl chloride, known as a human carcinogen, derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, in February 2023, on the border of Beaver County, Pennsylvania....
04
Sep
United States, Detroit, Michigan
The community near the closed incinerator still grapples with the environmental and health consequences that it has left behind.
When the incinerator in Det...
04
Sep
United States, Stanislaus County, California
Communities in the rural west side of Stanislaus County have been historically overburdened by social and environmental injustices. Despite the overburdening o...
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