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Environmental Justice Atlas
The EJ Atlas is a teaching, networking and advocacy resource. Strategists, activist organizers, scholars, and teachers will find many uses for the database, as well as citizens wanting to learn more about the often invisible conflicts taking place.
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A PLANET IN DANGER: the world of CHEVRONChevron is well known around the world as a company that systematically applies the "Polluter does not Pay Principle". This scholar-activist collaborative mapping project shows stories of communities reclaiming justice. #DíaAntiChevron |
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Climate DebtThe overconsumption of the available capacity of the Earth’s atmosphere and climate system to absorb greenhouse gases by the developed countries has run up a climate debt to developing countries and Mother Earth. |
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Permanent Peoples Tribunal Hearing on Corporate Human Rights Violations and Peoples Access to JusticeOn the first anniversary of the UNHRC resolution to address corporate abuses, this Feature Map updates the state of some cases presented in the Geneva PPT Hearing. More to be reported very soon. |
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Fracking FrenzyThe high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”, generates serious and large-scale environmental and human health concerns. |
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Environmental Justice in Himachal Pradesh, IndiaEJAtlas collaboration with Himdhara collective. Despite the image of a "green state", the Himalayan state pursue increasing energy generation and industrial development by diluting laws and ignoring dissent. |
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Mining conflicts in Latin AmericaThe mining conflicts featured map presents cases of mining conflicts related to metal ores, industrial minerals and construction materials mining activities. Metal ores present the largest number of reported cases. |
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Seed laws around the worldUnder corporate pressure, laws in many countries increasingly put limitations on what farmers can do with their seeds and with the seeds they buy. This map gives a picture of of the situation across the world today. |
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Nuclear power station in Doel, Belgium Doel is a cracking, often malfunctioning and already sabotaged plant with possibly the largest number of people living in its near proximity of all nuclear power plants. After more than 40 years of operation, it's time to close it down. |
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Biopalma against indigenous Tembé in the Amazon, Brazil The indigenous Tembé denounce the mining company VALE and Biopalma, for contaminating the water sources with agrotoxics (such as endosulfan) in the new large oil palm plantations in Pará. |
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Lynas Refinery in Kuantan, Malaysia Prompting Malaysia’s biggest environmental campaign, Australian Lynas Corp’s large rare earth refinery, established in Gebeng, produces toxic waste close to 30,000 residents, peat land, a bio-rich estuary, floodplains, and marine and coastal ecosystems. |
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Nishiyodogawa in Osaka, air pollution court cases, Japan Nishiyodogawa ward is an industrial area located in Osaka with businesses and adjacent housing, as well as highways. Air pollution victims filed lawsuits against industrial companies and the Hanshin Expressway Public Corporation. |
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Dolphin hunting conflict, Taiji, Wakayama prefecture, Japan During the six-month hunting season, hundreds of terrified dolphins are violently herded into a narrow cove. Most are slaughtered for meat — but scores of “good-looking” ones are captured and shipped off to aquariums. |
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Isahaya Bay, fill in of the tidal flats, Japan An ill conceived sea wall has left for 20 years local people and conservationists angry over loss of fisheries, seaweed catches, migratory birds, while farmers worry over damage to their reclaimed farmland if the gates are opened. |