by Amy Green | Aug 4, 2026 | Cancer, Earthjustice, Florida, Miami, Migrant Children, News, Pollution, superfund sites
Migrant children incarcerated at a now-closed facility next to an Air Force Reserve base outside of Miami were exposed to toxic chemicals such as arsenic and lead, which are linked with developmental harm and cancer, according to more than 20,000 pages of records released as part of federal litigation over the site. The Homestead migrant detention center for unaccompanied children…
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by Miacel Spotted Elk | Dec 23, 2025 | Earthjustice, Enbridge, great lakes, indigenous people, Line 5, News, Ojibwe, US Army Corps of Engineers, Wisconsin
Around August of each year, when temperatures swell in the Great Lakes region, wild rice — or manoomin in the Ojibwe language — begins to flower. Rice stalks can grow as high as 10 feet in the shallow waters, and to harvest, sticks and poles are used to knock seeds loose into boats or canoes. The harvest is critical each year to the Ojibwe. But those ricing waters are under threat as the…
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