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Amid the worst environmental racism still heaped on vulnerable Dallas residents, Paul Quinn College joins the fight
Amid the worst environmental racism still heaped on vulnerable Dallas residents, Paul Quinn College joins the fight
How its new Urban Research Initiative is helping neighbors and advocates trying to rid Floral Farms of a legacy of Shingle Mountain and other industrial hazards.
Five-year-old David Rojas rides his bike in front of his family s home on Bird Lane in the Floral Farms neighborhood of southeast Dallas. Eighteen-wheelers and other commercial trucks use the narrow street many times daily to get to an industrial recycling and waste disposal site on Bird Lane.(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer)
Law Man Walking: Nature Treks With Bill Holston
Fully vaccinated and hitting the trail with lifelong friends at Post Oak Preserve in Seagoville
By Bill Holston
Published in
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April 21, 2021
10:36 am
Last Saturday was a special hike. It was a celebration of over 40 years of hiking adventures with two great friends. More about that later.
I woke up early and threw on my sweatshirt because of the chill in the air. Our plan was to hike at Post Oak Preserve in Seagoville. We were hoping to see some wildflowers. I headed out US 175, listening to the Avett Brothers, which always puts me in a good mood. I left early so I would have a moment to journal. I sat at a picnic table in the dark and turned on the small solar lamp I carry tied to my pack (be prepared!). I read the Psalms, and wrote in my journal. It had been another stressful week at work. We’re doing our annual budget, which is an exercise of faith after the year we just had. Human Rights Initiative distributed
By Cherranda Smith
Feb 23, 2021
Marsha Jackson is a resident of the south section of Dallas, Texas who worked to get an illegal toxic waste dumping site removed.
The waste site, named Shingle Mountain, is a 60-foot tall pile of discarded roofing shingles that crept into Jackson’s backyard.
The pile spans more than a city block and spreads “just a few feet away from my bedroom,” Jackson told
The Washington Post. It started to form after white businessmen,
Christopher Ganter and
Cabe Chadick, decided the area was ideal for a dump site in 2017. They purchased vacant land and directed truck drivers to the area to avoid fees from a landfill. Ganter then set up an illegal operation to grind the shingles down to dust, a process that puts toxins and glass particles in the air for Jackson and her surrounding 100 neighbors to inhale. The two men faced multiple lawsuits for their illegal operation that didn’t have the necessary state permits to begin with.
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