Wed 4/5 @ 7:30PM
The “Happy Dog Takes on …” series, taking place at the Happy Dog in Gordon Square and co-sponsored by the City Club, returns this month with a timely issue: environmental justice in the wake of the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio — only one of many such derailments, most of which happen in the poorer communities where corporations also locate manufacturing plants that release pollutants into the air (Louisiana’s infamous “cancer alley” of petrochemical plants) or waste dumps that poison soil and water. And these poorer communities are kept in the dark about what these trains roaring through their communities re carrying. That would likely not be the case if they were passing through Chagrin Falls.
Stephen Love, the Cleveland Foundation’s program officer for the environment, will lead a discussion that features the Ohio Environmental Council’s Vice President of Public Affairs Emily Bacha; Kim Foreman, executive director of Environmental Health Watch; Divya Sridhar, manager of Climate Resiliency And Sustainability at Cleveland Neighborhood Progress; and Daniel E. Winston, co-executive director of River Valley Organizing.
The event is free and open to all.
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