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Mark Mitchell

Ensuring protections for environmental justice communities

Mark Mitchell

Despite EPA’s definition of “fair treatment,” “meaningful involvement,” and “environmental justice,” communities of color continue to be exposed to higher rates of air pollution, water pollution, toxics in products and contaminated properties. African Americans are more likely to live near landfills and dumps, contaminated Brownfield properties, trash incinerators, power plants, chemical plants, auto body shops, nail salons, and refineries than other Americans.

Posted Sep 18, 2013 by Mark Mitchell, MD, MPH

The things I learn while on the job

Dr. Susan Shaw with Lindsay Dahl of Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families

Cruising the halls of Congress can be fun when you’re side by side with leading physicians and scientists. I think I started to get a little bit smarter last week when I spent time on the hill with our coalition partner experts… Osmosis works that way right? We met with sixteen U.S. Senate offices in […]

Posted Mar 27, 2013 by Liz Hitchcock

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