The refining process of the Canadian tar sands causes dangerous groundwater problems and creates massive amounts of greenhouse gases, toxins, and pollutants that are causing increasing cancer rates and massive destruction to wetlands and forests.
CERCLA gives the EPA the authority to intervene in order to clean up sites that are or could be potentially hazardous to the environment or public.
When the oil tanker Exxon Valdez runs aground on 24 March 1989, it releases 41.6 million tons of crude oil along the coast of Alaska. The spill causes enormous damage to local ecosystems and wildlife.
In this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risks in the Landscapes of US Militarization,” literary scholar Hsuan Hsu discusses the emergence and controversial politics of US military bases on foreign soil.
This virtual exhibition curated by literary scholar Hsuan Hsu examines the environmental impact of US military activities worldwide and how activists have used art and other forms of representational media to convey the harmful effects of militarization on the local population and landscape.
Hsuan Hsu
Documentary films can be a means to disclose the elusive long-term effects of nuclear and chemical contamination. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization,” written and curated by literary scholar Hsu Hsuan.
This virtual exhibition curated by literary scholar Hsuan Hsu examines the environmental impact of US military activities worldwide and how activists have used art and other forms of representational media to convey the harmful effects of militarization on the local population and landscape.
Hsuan Hsu Vernon G. Thomas discuss attitudes and issues preventing bans on toxic lead shot and sinkers in North America and Europe, to point out that despite the parallels between these countries’ reforms, there has been little parity between the banning of lead shot and fishing sinkers.
This volume of RCC Perspectives contains an English and a German version of a speech made by RCC Director Christof Mauch in 2009. In his speech, Mauch outlines the purpose of the Rachel Carson Center and argues for the importance of studying environmental history.
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Garth Lenz has played a major part in the fight against Alberta Tar Sands Mining through his photojournalism.
A comprehensive history of the development of Houston, examining the factors that have facilitated large-scale energy production and unprecedented growth—and the environmental cost of that development.
