#industrial-pollution

#industrial-pollution

Atlas, along with its father-and-son owners Gary and Matthew Weisenberg, were arraigned two years ago on numerous criminal charges in connection with illegal dumping and handling of hazardous waste from July 2020 and August 2022. A little more than a year later, a compressed gas canister ignited at the scrap yard, causing a fiery explosion on the first day of school, after which the district attorney's office filed additional charges against the defendants.

C&H, which was operating the plant, did not have a sufficient contingency plan in place to deal with kinds of exceedingly warm weather that they got that day and that we see more and more of with climate change,

In this photograph, I am taking local reporters out into Ohuira Bay on Mexico's west coast, where my community's sacred sites lie. We fish shrimp and crab here, and collect snail shells to make crafts - a tradition that has been part of our Indigenous culture for generations. I'm a member of the Lázaro Cárdenas Yoreme-Mayo community and work as a fisher, but collaborate with scientists to collect marine-life samples for testing.