Toxic Cities

Executive Summary: I am evaluating solutions to reduce the proliferation of chemical and radioactive industrial carcinogens that threaten human health nationally and globally. I am specifically concerned with the toxic health effects on minority and low-income communities. After critiquing several alternatives, I can recommend methods to find reparations for suffering resulting from severe medical problems. More than half of the nation’s 26 million African Americans and more than a third of its Latinos live in …

…be difficult to implement, but if successful, they will benefit the health and economic states of millions of residents by preventing numerous diseases and unnecessary suffering. V. REFERENCES 1. Ifeoma Udoh, California Preventive Education Project, Graduate Student at UC Berkeley 2. Eugene Bardach, The Eight-Step Path 3. Joel Hirschhorn, Two Superfund Environmental Justice Case Studies 4. Environmental Health Coalition, Community-Based Health Survey of Residents in San Diego’s Most Polluted Neighborhoods 5. Bill Allen, Uproar Over Toxic Racism in Oakland