tailieunhanh - Air of Injustice: African Americans & Power Plant Pollution

Broadmeadow and Freer-Smith (1996) described three methods of particular deposition: sedimentation; precipitation and impaction. Sedimentation and precipitation occur due to gravity and collision with rain droplets respectively, and are unaffected by vegetation. Impaction occurs when a laminar air stream is disrupted as it passes the aerodynamically rough plant surfaces, while the particle continues in a straight line and strikes the obstacle, either through direct interception or electrostatic attraction. Retention can be helped by rough, pubescent, moist and/or sticky surfaces, where the literature review by Beckett et al. (1998) found increased stickiness of surface particularly facilitates greater coarser particle capture, while, roughness of. | Black Leadership Forum Clear The Air Georgia Coalition for the Peoples Agenda The Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice Who We Are The diverse groups who have collaborated on this report are active in the areas of public health air quality and environmental justice. It is the aim of this report to educate and inspire action. The Black Leadership Forum BLF acts as a clearinghouse for national African American leaders. The BLF brings together Black leaders to grapple with issues of the deepest significance to African Americans particularly civil rights and major public policy issues. Since the summer of 2000 BLF has included Climate Change as a significant policy issue of concern to the African American leadership. Last year Dr. Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich attended the Climate Justice Summit and UN Climate Conference at The Hague and organized a delegation to the UN World Conference on Racism. BLF sponsored two international forums in Durban South Africa one addressing persistent racism in the United States and the other addressing air quality issues impacting the African American community including climate change. The Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice SOC has served as the anchor for the African American environmental justice network. SOC was in the vanguard promoting community empowerment capacity building and grassroots organizing particularly in the South. Under the leadership of Connie Tucker SOC has evolved as a multi-issue multi-racial network of people working in their communities against racism war economic injustice and environmental destruction. Issues include air pollution water pollution waste disposal facility siting lead exposure worker safety housing community organizing and environmental justice. The Georgia Coalition for The Peoples Agenda GCPA is an advocacy organization that includes all of the major Cìv-1 Rights Human Rights Peace Justice organizations around the state of Georgia. Dr. Joseph E. .