Part 2: Key Topics in Environmental Justice
Section outline
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Redlining Page
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Activity: Mapping Inequality Page
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Food Apartheid Page
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Activity: Where do you live on the food access map? Page
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Superfund Sites Page
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[Option 1] Activity: Superfund Sites Near Me Page
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[Option 2] Activity: Superfund Sites Near Me Page Settings URL
What superfunds are closest to where you live?
Pan around the following map to find the superfund sites closest to where you live or grew up.
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What’s the hazard ranking of the site closest to you?
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What’s its status on the National Priorities List?
Cleaning up a superfund site first involves identifying the partially responsible polluters, such as businesses or landowners. Parties that are deemed as sharing responsibility for pollution of a superfund site can be sued, with any funds won partially subsidizing cleanup costs. Despite these efforts, there are still over 1,300 Superfund sites to be cleaned up as of 2024, with hundreds having been removed from the National Priorities List under the Trump administration.
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Quiz: Key Topics in Environmental Justice
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