Across the U.S., Americans are fighting for better air quality and healthy living standards where they live. In 'Facing the Facts: Environmental Justice,' we take you to those cities where you'll hear from residents working to better their communities.
In "Facing the Facts: Environmental Justice," we explore how people across America are fighting for better air quality and healthy living standards.
In Chicago, Angela Tova knows firsthand what pollution, especially from flames and smoke of nearby steel mills, can do to a family. Shutting down that incinerator is just one of the missions of Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living, or CRCQL for short. They were the first activist group to apply the Civil Rights Act in an environmental racism lawsuit against the Department of Environmental Protection.
"When it's raining really, really heavy and the ditch in the front of the neighborhood starts to overflow, it floods us into our neighborhood," said Kourtney Revels. "So we can see instances where heavy rain will stop us from being able to come in and out of our community." Meanwhile, up the coast on the shores of San Francisco's iconic Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood, work is being done to restore a previously toxic area into something so much more.
"We have children with asthma," said Principal Roxanne Ledda. "We have obesity, due to children not being able to go outside when the air is thick."
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