In St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, a twice-bankrupt oil refinery is poised to reopen despite a record of environmental disasters. Residents are fighting to protect their health and get a say in their island’s economic future. Read Alicia Keyes’s brilliant
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Less than 9% of plastic is recycled, causing devastating effects on our environment. In fact, plastics recycling was popularized by the plastics industry, which knowingly promoted a recycling system they knew was doomed to fail in order to avoid accountability
Corporate power and corporate law are core underlying causes of both environmental degredation and environmental injustice. This paper investigates how corporate law encourages corporations to pursue shareholder profit, no matter the cost to people or the planet. Relying on profit
Fast fashion is the rapid turn-over of low-cost clothing, which is the focus of business models of companies such as H&M, Zara, and Gap. Although the fast fashion industry generates billions of dollars every year, this industry has continued to
Corporations are responsible for a disproportionate share of environmental harms—from greenhouse gas emissions to water pollution, clear-cut forests to toxic agricultural waste. Environmentalists have been fighting a losing war with corporations for decades, because the law is structurally biased in
Corporations, empowered and legitimized by corporate law and theory, are avoiding the burden of their (outsized) contributions to climate change by passing that responsibility on to individual consumers who have limited ability to make large scale change.
This article takes a critical view of how corporate power exacerbates and excuses the harms of air pollution. By focusing on Buffalo, New York as a lens through which to consider problems of national scope, the paper explores the enduring