Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Research Paper
I decided to do my research paper on Environmental Justice for Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco. I thought it was pretty interesting to find something like this going on in our own backyard.Just take a look at the serious toxins found in the air in this report.
Air Quality
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) estimates that of the 39 pollutants they measure in San Francisco neighborhoods, the highest concentration, 20pollutants, was found in Bayview Hunters Point10. Air quality is impacted by a variety of different sources including diesel and gasoline vehicles traveling on highways 280 and 101, noxious fumes from the Southeast Wastewater Treatment Facility, pollution from the PG&E Hunters Point Power Plant and the Mirant Power Plant which is less than a mile away, and air emissions fromhundreds of industrial activities, most notably those located in the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.
PG&E’s Hunters Point Power Plant, by itself, discharges almost 600 tons of pollution into the air each year including PM10 particles, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and volatile organic compounds11.
This is a little but more about Green Action.These guys are tuff stuff. Just take a look at their mission statement:
http://www.greenaction.org/org/mission.shtml
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Good topic, but you need more sources. Take a look at a few other blogs for a quick comparison.
The topic works, but you can also need more sources. Wasn't there also a movie, "Erin Brokovitch" that had something to do with a lawsuit against PG&E and their pollutants. You should be able to find quite a few articles.
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