Monday, February 1, 2010

Environmental Justice in Mountain View

"Their homes are mingled with more than 25 junkyards, five gravel and concrete companies, seven petroleum bulk terminals, a brick company, the odiferous sewage treatment plant that serves all of Albuquerque, and dozens of other industries, many surrounded by razor wire."

High Country News tells the story of Mountain View, a neighborhood in Albuquerque's South Valley whose 30-year fight against industrial polluters continues to this day.

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