Conservation groups, scientists, doctors and public-health experts filed a legal brief today supporting constitutional claims raised by Mayan children who oppose approval and operation of a massive industrial hog farm on ecologically sensitive and culturally important lands in the Yucatán Peninsula.
The friend-of-the-court (amicus curiae) brief filed in the Second District Court in the State of Yucatán today describes the substantial body of scientific evidence about the grave and irreversible harms to human health and the environment associated with industrial hog operations. These harms include contamination of water such as naturally occurring freshwater wells known as cenotes; emission of noxious air pollution; the spread of dangerous pathogens; and contributions to climate change.
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For Immediate Release, May 5, 2021
Contact:
Angélica Simón, Greenpeace Mexico, +52 (555) 534-3544, angelica.simon@greenpeace.org
Nydia Gutierrez, Earthjustice, (202) 302-7531, ngutierrez@earthjustice.org (for English)
Robert Valencia, Earthjustice, (305) 457-7938, rvalencia@earthjustie.org (for Spanish)
Kelly Hunter Foster, Waterkeeper Alliance, (212) 747-0622 ext. 160, kfoster@waterkeeper.orgkfoster@waterkeeper.org (for English)
Public Health Experts, Conservationists Ask Mexico’s Highest Court to Uphold Suspension of 49,000-Hog Industrial Animal Operation in Yucatán Peninsula
Efforts Support Constitutional Claims Raised by Mayan Children
MEXICO CITY,
Mexico Conservation groups, scientists, doctors and public-health experts filed a legal brief with Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation today supporting constitutional claims raised by Mayan children who oppose approval and operation of an industrial animal operation in the Yuca
Floridaâs Crisis Highlights a Nationwide Risk From Toxic Ponds
Thousands of open-air waste pools near power plants, mines and industrial farms can pose safety dangers from poor management and, increasingly, the effects of climate change.
A pond, built atop a mound of waste from phosphorous mining, in Riverview, Fla., in December.Credit.Jason Gulley
April 6, 2021Updated 2:44 p.m. ET
They are ponds the size of city blocks: Wastewater pits that hold the hazardous byproducts of coal. Lagoons brimming with diluted pig excrement. Vast pools atop stacks of radioactive tailings.
The risks posed by pools of waste like these, a common feature at thousands of industrial and agricultural sites across the country, have been brought into sharp relief by a giant wastewater pond in Piney Point, Fla. on the brink of a catastrophic failure. The specter of a deluge prompted the authorities to evacuate hundreds from their homes over the weekend.