Environmental justice is a new and still evolving movement.
Its premise is that residents of poor, minority communities suffer disproportionate health effects from polluting industries. Bayer is being investigated by Brazilian authorities in connection with the deaths of more than a dozen coffee farmers who used its Baysiston pesticide, German television reported Monday. The EPA is seeking public comment on a comprehensive, new testing program to evaluate whether chemicals present in the environment can adversely affect the endocrine systems of humans and wildlife. A consortium of UK insurers yesterday unveiled a hurricane forecasting system that could potentially save them millions of pounds through improved risk assessment. Local officials here are moving to take legal action against a man who claims to have quietly accumulated huge chunks of the Amazon rain forest, a national magazine reported Monday.