Latest Cleanup – Environment and Race: How are journalists covering environmental racism?

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Rodney Morris who lives adjacent to the Koppers plant points to Glade Creek where contamination was found. Photo courtesy of the Southern Illinoisan.

COMMUNITY SUSPICIOUS OF LATEST CLEANUP, FRUSTRATION CONTINUES Northeast community members continue to mistrust waste cleanups near their homes by a chemical manufacturing company and oversight of government entities following historically unsafe handling. Koppers Incorporated., located in Carbondale, Illinois, serviced the Illinois Railroad system and employed a predominantly African American workforce until its closure in 1991Continue reading “CHAPTER 2”