Lois Gibbs: Grassroots Organizer and Environmental Health Advocate.

• Autores: Kevin Konrad
• Localización: American journal of public health, ISSN 0090-0036, Vol. 101, Nº. 9, 2011, págs. 1558-1559
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article profiles environmental health advocate and grassroots social change organizer Lois Marie Gibbs, who is credited with many pieces of environmental legislation in the U.S., including the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 and the Emergency Planning and Community Right to- Know Act of 1986. A discussion of the work that Gibbs did to rectify environmental damage caused by the Love Canal chemical waste landfill in Niagara Falls, New York is presented. Books which Gibbs has published are discussed.