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147. Ibid.
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149. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., and Charles Lee, Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States: A National Report on the Racial and Socio-Economic Characteristics of Communities with Hazardous Waste Sites, United Church of Christ, 1987, p. xiv (ucc.org/about-us/archives/pdfs/toxwrace87.pdf).
150. Temma Kaplan, Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements (New York: Routledge, 1997), p. 69.
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152. Robert D. Bullard, Paul Mohai, Robin Saha, and Beverly Wright, Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty: 1987–2007, United Church of Christ, March 2007, p. xii (ucc.org/justice/pdfs/toxic20.pdf).
153. Steve Lerner, “Fenceline and Disease Cluster Communities: Living in the Shadow of Heavily-Polluting Facilities,” Collaborative on Health and the Environment, October 1, 2006 (healthandenvironment.org/articles/homepage/751).
154. Mick Brown, “Bhopal gas disaster’s legacy lives on 25 years later,” Telegraph.co.uk, August 6, 2009 (telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/
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156. Researchers found heavy concentrations of carcinogenic chemicals and heavy metals like mercury. Mercury was found at between 20,000 to 6 million times the expected levels, and elemental mercury was discovered to be widely distributed across the plant premises. Twelve volatile organic compounds, most greatly exceeding EPA standard limits, were found to have seeped and continue to seep into the water supplies of an estimated twenty thousand people in the local area. Three water wells in this community, northeast of the factory, were discovered to have the most severe contamination. Other wells, though not as severely contaminated, also showed elevated levels of toxic chemicals. I. Labunska, A. Stephenson, K. Brigden, et al., “Toxic contaminants at the former Union Carbide factory site, Bhopal, India: 15 years after the Bhopal accident,” Greenpeace Research Laboratories, April 1999.
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158. “What Happened in Bhopal?”
159. Rashida Bee and Champa Devi Shukla, Goldman Prize 2004 acceptance speech (goldmanprize.org/node/83).
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161. Ann Larabee, Decade of Disaster (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000), p. 136.
162. Kim Fortun, Advocacy after Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), p. 58.
163. Ibid.
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