Producing Food
These chemicals are used to kill plants and have been widely sprayed all over the globe.
What are Pesticides?
These chemicals are what make plastics flexible.
What are phthalates?
This source of energy is the most consumed in the U.S.
What is oil or petroleum?
This place is considered the birthplace of the environmental justice movement.
What is Warren County, North Carolina?
High levels of GHG are responsible for global warming and stand for this.
What is greenhouse gas?
CAFO stands for this.
What is Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation?
This term is used to describe a chemical that causes weight gain.
What is an obesogen?
What is coal?
This was a discriminatory practice that consisted of the systematic denial of services such as mortgages, insurance loans, and other financial services to residents of certain areas, based on their race or ethnicity.
What is redlining?
In this city in 2015, global leaders gathered to make climate pledges and commit to lowering carbon emissions to curb climate change.
This process uses animal carcasses and turns them into animal feed and other products.
What is Rendering?
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Chloracne is a health symptom of exposure to this toxic chemical.
What is dioxin?
The respiratory disease COPD stands for this.
What is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
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These are exposures, public health or environmental effects from the combined emissions and discharges, in a geographic area, including environmental pollution from all sources.
What are cumulative impacts?
This weather phenomenon is measured on a scale of 0-5, yet with climate change intensifying weather patterns, the scale for these types of storms may need to be adjusted in the future.
What are hurricanes?
These "zones" are caused by fertilizer runoff and CAFO wastes that get into our oceans and contribute to eutrophication.
What are dead zones?
These are known as "forever chemicals".
What are PFCs or PFAs?
Uranium deposits will last around 80 years, but the waste from nuclear fuel that uses uranium will last this long.
What is 300,000 years?
This state was the first to have an environmental justice policy (hint: it happened before the Federal Policy in 1994).
What is Arkansas?
While carbon dioxide is a common greenhouse gas, this GHG is even more potent and has sped up climate change, especially after the advent of fracking.
What is methane?
This is the percentage of cropland in the U.S. that is dedicated to organic farming.
What is 0.5%?
This is the substance that was made infamous in the Flint, Michigan water crisis.
What is lead?
This city is now abandoned and home to the world's largest wildlife preserve after a deadly nuclear incident in 1984.
What is Chernobyl?
This Arkansas community is home to a Georgia-Pacific paper and chemical plant that was responsible for local pollution, including dumping waste into "stink creek."
What is Crossett, Arkansas?
This type of disease will increase in traditionally cooler areas of the country as the climate warms (hint: mosquitos, ticks).