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... Organizing against oil companies’ racism [S&L Magazine] Search: This Month About Us Subscribe Archive S&L Magazine Printer-friendly version Interview with environmental justice leader Henry Clark Organizing against oil companies’ racism For decades, the movement to protect the environment was mainly concentrated in middle-class communities and focused on issues far removed from the environmental crisis in urban areas.

The West County Toxics Coalition, which operates in North Richmond, California, has played a vital role in urbanizing the environmental justice struggle.

Not only has this organization exposed the crisis within urban areas, it has connected environmental violations to the inherent racism of toxic dumping in poor areas.

In January, Socialism and Liberation’s Keith Pavlik interviewed Henry Clark, executive director of West County Toxics Coalition, about the situation in North Richmond and the fight for environmental justice and against racism.

Henry Clark leads protest against toxic pollution.

Photo: Bill Hackwell How long have you been involved in the struggle for environmental justice against toxic racism?

I have been involved in the environmental justice movement for about 21 years now.

In the early 1980s, I started working in North Richmond, Calif.

What is the particular situation in North Richmond with environmental racism?

We have a devastating situation there.

I was born in North Richmond in 1944, and raised there adjac...

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E-mail: Select one: HTML Text Breaking News E-Mail Alerts • Get breaking news in your inbox as it happens No agreement on how to resolve asbestos claims By Maureen Groppe, Gannett News Service WASHINGTON — Hooked up to an oxygen tank, former boiler engineer Stephen Rosenberg wheeled into congressional offices on a motorized chair last July to ask lawmakers not to stop his lawsuit against makers of the asbestos products he believed caused his cancer.

Since his death in October, Rosenberg's widow and two children have continued a legal fight against asbestos makers they believe knew about the dangers but didn't protect workers, not even by offering a face mask.

"Anything would have been better than ...

... swissinfo swiss information business culture news informations of switzerland :IN DEPTH - détail Main Page International Swiss Affairs Business Sci & Tech Culture Travel Weather Multimedia Specials Services Search Maps Swisslinks Swisshelpdesk Newsletter Mobile Freemail About us Contact Sitemap Site Help Tuesday 28.02.2006, CET 21:56 Asbestos ruling clears the air for ABB swissinfo February 28, 2006 9:15 PM The asbestos cloud is lifting over ABB (Keystone) A United States federal judge has approved a $1.43-billion deal (SFr1.88 billion) that settles long-running asbestos litigation against the ABB engineering group.

The decision gives the green light for ABB's revised restructuring plan of its US Combustion Engineering subsidiary.

RELATED ITEMS ABB moves back into the black in 2005 ABB asbestos settlement given go ahead Asbestos turns ABB profit into loss And it means that ABB, which is based in Zurich, can now concentrate on developing its core business of power and automation technologies.Claimants still have 30 days to lodge objections to the decision, but the vast majority have already signalled their acceptance of the cash and shares offer.

Tuesday's ruling by a federal judge in a New Jersey court also does not affect separate, but smaller, litigation against ABB's Lummus Global division.The Swiss-Swedish company bought Combustion Engineering, a US firm that had in the 1970s produced asbestos-lined boilers, in 1990 despite pending lawsuits from fo...