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Willowtree Oil Drilling Project

In an attempt to stabalize energy market and boost domestic energy production, Biden administration decided to push forward the construction of willowtree oil drilling project. However, this approval is a betrayal of Biden's stopping oil and gas drilling compaign promise and raises huge objection from public. The tension also lies within the Alaska residents, some think it would foster racial justice, by creating job opportunities and increasing revenues, while other concerns more about environmental impacts. Last but not the least, there's debate over the environmental consequences of the project itself: will it actually lead to more emission?

Guoyang2023-09-10T06:07:24+00:00June 16, 2023|Categories: Case Summary|Tags: Energy Infrastructure, Environmental Policy and Sustainable Infrastructure|0 Comments

New Jersey Environmental Justice Law Forces Contaminated Site Cleanup

New Jersey's Environmental Justice Law helps protect underrepresented and disadvantaged communities from environmental impacts by limiting industrial and waste facilities in those communities. Additionally, greater attention has been focused on cleaning up contaminated waste sites and holding those accountable for polluting these communities.

Guoyang2023-09-10T04:08:32+00:00June 16, 2023|Categories: Case Summary|Tags: Environmental Engineering, Environmental Policy and Sustainable Infrastructure|0 Comments

Syracuse I‑81 Removal

Syracuse's 1.4-mile stretch of the I-81, which is raised above the city and cuts through downtown, is posed for a new transition. While once displacing disadvantaged communities, officials have drafted plans to tear down the crumbling interstate and create a street-level grid to repair broken communities and create a revitalized urban core. The project is currently paused due to lawsuits from local groups questioning the impacts of such a decision and if it will really improve the area or cause more generational impacts.

Guoyang2023-09-10T05:17:50+00:00June 16, 2023|Categories: Case Summary|Tags: Construction Engineering and Management, Environmental Policy and Sustainable Infrastructure, Transportation Engineering|0 Comments

Environmental justice and drinking water quality: are there socioeconomic disparities in nitrate levels in U.S. drinking water?

This study was conducted to address possible disparities across socioeconomic strata in regards to drinking water contamination. Seeking to look specifically at nitrate, a number of findings were made that raised concern - specifically that Hispanic communities are much more likely to experience high nitrate contamination in the water.

Guoyang2023-09-10T06:09:33+00:00June 16, 2023|Categories: Case Summary|Tags: Environmental Engineering, Environmental Policy and Sustainable Infrastructure, Water Quality and Health|0 Comments

Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)

A mega dam is being built in Ethiopia along the Blue Nile River. The new hydroelectric power plant is expected to generate 5GW electricity, lifting the whole country out of poverty and symbolizing the national power. However, as the river is a shared resouce with 10 other countries, it undergoes huge dispute, especially with Egypt, and the tension is escavating.

Guoyang2023-09-10T03:54:08+00:00June 16, 2023|Categories: Case Summary|Tags: Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Environmental Policy and Sustainable Infrastructure, Hydraulics and Hydrological Engineering|0 Comments

Nicaragua Canal

A new canal in Nicaragua will be built under the agreement of the Nicaragua government and Chinese businessman Wang Jing, with his company HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Company (HKND). The project is intended to lift the poor country out of poverty, just as what the Panama Canal has done to its residents, but its construction may ruin the ecosystem of Central America. Besides, there are more potential issues like political tensions, exaggerated construction speed and ambiguous finance etc

Guoyang2023-09-10T04:10:20+00:00June 16, 2023|Categories: Case Summary|Tags: Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Geotechnical Engineering, Hydraulics and Hydrological Engineering|0 Comments

Geotechnical Risk Assessment and Environmental Justice

This study analyzes a number of geotechnical risk assessment reports, and addresses how well they deal with the core principles and themes of environmental justice. The findings are rather lackluster, however the paper also gives a number of possible reasons why this might be the case.

Guoyang2023-09-10T06:11:35+00:00June 16, 2023|Categories: Case Summary|Tags: Earth Systems, Geotechnical Engineering|0 Comments

Black Lives Matter in Engineering, Too! An Environmental Justice Approach Towards Equitable Decision-Making for Stormwater Management in African American Communities

This dissertation details the stormwater management practices and history in East Tampa, and uses them as a framework to address stormwater management on a larger level. It goes into detail about East Tampa, although it also mentions a number of other places, and does so by approaching the subject of stormwater management through a lens influenced by both environmental justice and critical race theory.

Guoyang2023-09-10T03:27:01+00:00June 16, 2023|Categories: Case Summary|Tags: Construction Engineering and Management, Earth Systems, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Environmental Policy and Sustainable Infrastructure, Water Quality and Health|0 Comments

Safer Bike Routes in D.C. to Improve Children Health Inequities

In recent years, D.C. has added extensive bike paths to increase cycling safety and cycling options to allow children to bike to school to increase physical activity. Lack of physical activity is a concern in the D.C. school area that serves underrepresented communities whose students may not be able to participate in extracurricular sports. The addition of bike paths can help decrease air pollution and offer a chance to decrease child health inequities in the community.

Guoyang2023-09-10T04:54:58+00:00June 16, 2023|Categories: Case Summary|Tags: Construction Engineering and Management, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Policy and Sustainable Infrastructure, Transportation Engineering|0 Comments

South Wake Landfill in Holly Springs

In the early 90's, the town of Holly Springs was predominantly African American, and was chosen for a site for a landfill to be built. Over time, the area shifted demographics until it was predominantly white, at which time the permit for the site was issued, denied, and re-issued. This is in spite of the fact that there appeared to be no such concerns when the area was predominantly African American.

Guoyang2023-09-10T06:05:38+00:00June 16, 2023|Categories: Case Summary|Tags: Construction Engineering and Management, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Policy and Sustainable Infrastructure, Water Quality and Health|0 Comments

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