More on Warehouses & Environmental Injustice

“‘Warehouses in their backyards’: when Amazon expands, these communities pay the price” by Kaveh Waddell and Maanvi Singh is a companion piece to the Consumer Reports article that CEEJH collaborated on, “When Amazon Expands, These Communities Pay the Price.” Waddell and Singh cover the environmental injustices of Amazon’s expansion, the company’s profits during the Covid-19 pandemic, what happens when Amazon sets up a new warehouse, and what’s preventing necessary air pollution regulations. The article emphasizes the need for more local air quality monitoring, explaining “…no one publicly tracks emissions near warehouses: not the EPA, not local governments and not Amazon itself. Environmental regulators monitor air quality around the country, but their sensors are too spread out.”

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