Dr. Ayanna Quamina explains how environmental medicine connects everyday toxins, pollutants and chemicals to chronic illness, and why this conversation is especially urgent for Black communities.
air quality
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Air and water disparities, and the fight to shut down HERC
HERC trash incinerator residents describe living next to a facility that sounds like an airport tarmac, causes respiratory illness and sits in a majority-Black community absorbing pollution from across Hennepin County.
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Clinicians, Scientists Call for Closure of Hennepin Energy Recovery Center by 2027
Scientists and clinicians argue HERC’s outdated 30-year permit fails to protect North Minneapolis residents as hunger strikers demand a vote to close the trash incinerator by December 2027.
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Hunger strikers say Hennepin County commissioners won’t meet with them
Zero Burn Coalition hunger strikers say Hennepin County commissioners have refused to meet with them six days into their action demanding a vote to close the HERC trash incinerator by December 2027.