From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Thu, 2 Jul 2020 10:59:54 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] "Hazardous Waste Sites in Close Proximity to Federally Funded Housing" |
Most U.S. Hazardous Waste Sites in Close Proximity to Federally Funded Housing New report calls for impacted families living in affordable housing to drive the change to this urgent and ongoing environmental and health crisis FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Shriver Center June 30, 2020 CHICAGO - An estimated 77,000 people who live in federally assisted housing across the United States are at risk of being poisoned by dangerous toxic contamination and the federal government has been aware of this hazard for years but taken no action, according to a new report released today by the Shriver Center on Poverty Law, Earthjustice, and faculty at the University of Chicago’s Abrams Environmental Law Clinic and Columbia University’s Health Justice Advocacy Clinic. The report finds that decades of environmental racism have systematically put residents of federally assisted housing in direct proximity to these toxins. Many of these residents are Black and Brown and their housing was placed in harm’s way due to the historic discriminatory housing policies of the federal government. Despite the risks, the federal government is still moving people into housing that is potentially hazardous, without notification to the residents, and continues to invest redevelopment dollars into these sites. … For the entire release, see https://www.povertylaw.org/article/ej-report-release/ For the full report, go to https://www.povertylaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/environmental_justice_report_final.pdf -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director Center for Public Environmental Oversight A project of the Pacific Studies Center LSiegel@cpeo.org P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042 Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918 http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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