Fun Facts
What major event did Environmental Justice spark from? (Hint: remember back to the CR questions)
What is the Civil Rights Movement
What two cities is cancer alley located between?
What is New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
What does EPA stand for?
What is Environmental Protection Agency
What groups of people are mostly affected by environmental injustice?
What are minorities and low income neighborhoods
What year did Flint switch water sources?
When is 2014
What percentage of Americans live within three miles of a Superfund site, where mismanaged toxic wastes end up?
What is one in six Americans
Approximately how many miles is cancer alley?
What is 85 miles. (Answer is correct if within 10 miles)
What was the name of the act passed in 1970 that helped protect residential areas from environmental damages?
What is the Clean Air Act of 1970.
True or False: Environmental injustices only take place in urban environments.
What is false
What were some of the reported early effects of the new water source?
Who is widely considered to be the father of Environmental Justice? (Hint: he wrote a book titled "Principle of Environmental Justice")
Who is Dr. Robert Bullard
Approximately how much more likely (in percentage) are cancer alley residents to develop cancer in comparison to the average American?
What is 95%
What happened in the Paris agreement?
What is a global pledge to lower greenhouse emissions from 2 degrees C, aiming for 1.5 degrees C.
How have environmental movements shifted overtime?
What is moved from conservation (focusing on wilderness) to incorporation of human rights
What is 2.4% to 4.9%.
Environmental justice is the intersectionality of many topics. What are some of topics that environmental justice are influenced by?
What is social justice, public health, environmental science?
What are some example of environmental racism in cancer alley?
What are disproportionate placement of industrial plants (over 150 plants in cancer alley), exposure to air pollution (predominantly black and brown areas and has some of the most polluted air in the country), and lack of political representation.
What political act is one of the most apparent causes of environmental injustice? (Hint: think colors)
What is redlining?
When and how did environmental justice in Europe start?
What are some overall takeaways from Flint pipe map?
What is most homes are labeled containing copper, with the outer parts of the city mostly having less coverage
Where were the 17 principles of environmental justice adopted?
Where was the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio
What are some other examples of cancer alley in the US?
What is Houston, TX (oil refineries and chemical plants), The San Joaquin Valley, CA (extreme air pollution), and Bronx, NY (extreme air pollution, nicknamed "asthma alley")
What are the three approaches used by the federal government to combat environmental injustices?
What is distributive, procedural, and corrective?
List the top 5 states in order of how many laws and acts they have passed in favor of environmental justice.
What are California, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota
What was the name of the lawsuit where Flint residents sued the city?
What is the Safe Drinking Water Act lawsuit