Category 1
What year did BIll Clinton's watershed reform take place?
1996
The two gas stations listed as polluters
Shell and Valero
Is Los Angeles the largest urban oil field in the country?
Yes.
How many activists and residents gathered together to oppose the expansion of chemical landfill?
Hundreds
Name the author of this book
Nadia Y. Kim
The two schools that Long Beach were willing to put diesel pumping BNSF SCIG train yard to?
Hudson elementary school and Cabrillo high school.
What happened when the LA residents reported the illegal flaring?
Nothing, their reports were ignored by Shell.
True or False?
The representatives of BP denied responsibilty to ex-employees death by cancer.
True.
True or False
Immigrants and refugees commit the most crimes in America.
False.
Why does the government consider asthma a "Personal Action plan"
Because it's considered to be a funding and resource drain.
How many oil wells in LA were used annually in the ports to store and recieve nearby oil, tar sand, and asphalt?
28 milion.
How many cancer risks did Wilmington have from oil refineries?
one thousand
List the cities where oil was being dumped.
Long Beach, Wilmington, and Carson.
How did President Clinton's act affect African Americans, Asian Americans, and immigrants?
In 1996 President Clinton watershed reform discursively targeted women of color, immigrants and refugees which dropped them from life-saving benefits, resulting in some Asian refugee mothers to killing themselves.
How did governor Pete's proposition affect the Latinx?
In 1994 Pete Wilson's proposition 187 emerged targetting the Latinx population be denying no emergency health care and public education to illegals.
Who increased fear of immigrants?
Trump.
What does LBACA stand for?
Long Beach Alliance for Children with Asthma.
What two grassroots organizations did Tanya team up with?
Community Partners Council (CPC) and Long Beach Alliance for Children with Asthma.
The location of the workers who were threatend to be fired when questioning health.
Silicon Valley.
What made them question the immigrants place in heiarchy and their treatments to the US.
The transformation of the racial and ethnic in LA began with the landmark 1965 immigration and nationality act as Asian Americans and Latina Ethics have composed the vast majority of immigrants to the US.
What year did the immigration and nationality act begin?
1965
Did the immigrants votes matter to the US electoral politics.
Yes, because without Latinx and other immigrant votes the electoral politics in the US wouldn't have enough votes.
The name of the mother that brought up issue with asthma.
Carmen
Most common disease explained in the text.
Asthma.
Gas station exposed for "illegal flaring"
Shell