Environmental Justice

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Pollution Claims Lives and Costs Trillions: Urgent Need for Sustainable Solutions

Industrial pollution is taking a grim toll on global health and the economy, underscoring the urgent need for awareness and sustainable solutions. According to ScienceDirect, in 2015 alone, pollution caused an estimated 9 million deaths, approximately 16% of all deaths globally, and resulted in $4.6 trillion in economic losses.

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How Communities Prepare for a Disaster

When nuclear plants shut down but the waste stays behind, what happens to the people who trained for catastrophe?

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Why the Federal Government Still Has No Permanent Nuclear Waste Solution

Forty-three years after Congress promised a solution, the United States remains trapped in an expensive stalemate over nuclear waste disposal. Despite President Trump's recent executive orders calling for a "recommended national policy to support spent nuclear fuel management" within 240 days, decades of political reversals have left 89,000 metric tons of radioactive waste scattered across 75 sites with no permanent solution in sight.

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Justice Delayed: Environmental Exploitation and Recovery

For over eight decades, Indigenous communities worldwide have served as unwilling guardians of humanity's most dangerous industrial legacy. From the uranium mines of Namibia to the nuclear test sites of Kazakhstan, from the Marshall Islands to the Navajo Nation, Native peoples have borne the environmental and health costs of the global nuclear industry while reaping none of its benefits.
This pattern of "nuclear colonization" represents a modern form of environmental racism where marginalized communities become expendable in pursuit of national security and energy production. The consequences are measured not just in contaminated soil and water, but in generations of cancer, birth defects, and cultural displacement.

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Toxic Legacy: Why California's Coastal Communities Demand Nuclear Justice

Coastal communities bear the environmental burden of 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste.

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LA28 Faces Backlash Over Surfing Venue Near Nuclear Waste Site

The LA28 Organizing Committee’s recent decision to host the 2028 Olympic surfing competition at Lower Trestles, a renowned surf break located next to the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, has sparked intense public concern. Critics say the venue’s proximity to a high-level radioactive waste storage facility raises serious safety and environmental red flags.

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LA28 Hosted at Lower Trestles

The Olympics LA28 Organizing Committee has announced that Lower Trestles, the world-class surf break next to the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, will host the surfing competition for the 2028 Olympics.