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Chester is Rising Chester is Rising is an interdisciplinary investigation of environmental injustice in the city of Chester, PA.
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The podcast follows Zulene Mayfield in her 30-year fight to protect her community's right to breathe.

04/07/2021

SERIES FINALE
Episode 5 - "Rise"
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Curious about what's coming out of that stack? I've charted many of Covanta's yearly emissions here. Notice how they are...
03/07/2021

Curious about what's coming out of that stack? I've charted many of Covanta's yearly emissions here.

Notice how they are, on the whole, emitting more than previous decades.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XFNip9Kz7o-QS4axSaExDclMuSe-QrOroMky_GYPVbA/edit?usp=sharing

Arsenic Arsenic Year,Emission Amt(In Tons) 2018,0.0024 2017,0.0029 2016,0.001 2015,0.0008 2014,0.0012 2013,0.0023 2012,0.0006 2011,0.0006 2010,0.0006 2009,0.0007 2008,0.0012 2007,0.0011 2006,0.0011 2005,0.001 2004,0.001 2003,0.0011 2002,0.001 Similar rates to 2000's with exception of two major s...

03/07/2021

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Take a look at this passage from the book Don't Burn It Here: Grassroots Challenges to Trash Incinerators.Residents of C...
01/07/2021

Take a look at this passage from the book Don't Burn It Here: Grassroots Challenges to Trash Incinerators.

Residents of Chester staunchly opposed the county's plan to build their trash incinerator in the city. It was only when the former convicted Mayor Nacrelli joined the negotiations that the deal was sealed...

I want to thank filmmaker Robert Bahar for permitting the use of the 1997 doc "Laid to Waste" in episode 2 part 2! Check...
01/07/2021

I want to thank filmmaker Robert Bahar for permitting the use of the 1997 doc "Laid to Waste" in episode 2 part 2! Check out the full film here:
https://vimeo.com/323800761

This is "Laid to Waste: A Chester Neighborhood Fights for it's Future" by George McCollough on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people…

01/07/2021

In Episode 2 Part 2, we discuss some of the Supreme Court cases involving CRCQL and environmental injustice. After CRCQL's case was rendered moot, an extremely different instant case set precedent on the issue in 2004. Learn more about the differences here:
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/235407916.pdf

In Episode 2 Part 1, our story begins at The Cotton Club in 1933 Harlem, NY. While this is truly the venue Chester nativ...
01/07/2021

In Episode 2 Part 1, our story begins at The Cotton Club in 1933 Harlem, NY. While this is truly the venue Chester native Ethel Water's debuted "Stormy Weather," it is important to note the establishment's anti-Black history. To learn more about the club and its practices, check out this page:
https://aaregistry.org/story/the-cotton-club-opens/

*The Cotton Club opened on this date in 1923.  This was a popular segregated New York City nightclub from 1923 to 1940 that exemplified how American racial intersectionality and inequity lived together.  It was located on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue (1923 to 1935), then briefly in midto...

30/06/2021

As of May of 2020, the Covanta incinerator salaries 6 Chester residents. This contradicts the community's host agreement with Westinghouse, the former owner of the facility, which promised at least 55% of the plant's personnel to Chester residents.

Episode 1 discusses the Cerrell Report of 1984, wherein industry scientists make the case for siting waste incinerators ...
30/06/2021

Episode 1 discusses the Cerrell Report of 1984, wherein industry scientists make the case for siting waste incinerators in areas "of least resistance."

While these types of facilities may hold the legal right to operate where they stand, that does not mean the process through which they obtained that right was ethical.

While residents are typically hard-pressed to prove legal discrimination by waste companies, we can easily view their predatory intentions.

30/06/2021

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In this series, we talk with everyone. Environmental racism operates insidiously and cannot be appropriately explained b...
29/06/2021

In this series, we talk with everyone. Environmental racism operates insidiously and cannot be appropriately explained by a surface level report. In this podcast, we dig deep.
One episode will be release each day this week.

Correction: Marilyn Howarth's credentials - *Director of the Community Engagement Core of UPENN CEET*

29/06/2021

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