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After a financial emergency years ago, the state of Michigan decided to switch Flint's water source from Lake Huron to the Flint River. The river, however, was far from clean. Nearby factories use it as a place to dump their waste. (The locals call it the "General Motors sewer"). Soon after the switch, the people of Flint started complaining about the water. Officials batted away these concerns, saying everything was "under control." But it wasn't. Tests later showed that the water contained concerning amounts of lead, which can be dangerous, even poisonous if ingested. It was a long time before the issue was resolved and the people of Flint had access to clean drinking water. Most of the people living in Flint are African-American and 40% are below the poverty line.

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"Would more have been done, and at a much faster pace, if nearly 40 percent of Flint residents were not living below the poverty line? The answer is unequivocally yes," the NAACP said in a statement.

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"Would more have been done, and at a much faster pace, if nearly 40 percent of Flint residents were not living below the poverty line? The answer is unequivocally yes," the NAACP said in a statement.

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A company called Energy Transfers Partners was in charge of the 1,172-mile pipeline project that was supposed to transport crude oil from an oil field in North Dakota to a town outside Chicago. The Native Americans of that region, a tribe by the name of the Standing Rock Sioux, protested the construction of this pipeline. The pipeline was mapped out to run within a half-mile of the Sioux reservation, which is a violation of treaties. The Sioux were also concerned that the pipeline would contaminate their main water source, the Missouri River, posing a health risk. So they held peaceful demonstrations to stand by their beliefs. The government and police did not take kindly to these demonstrations, to say the least. There were riots and people were arrested.

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“Police, who are often armed with large tanks and riot gear, have used pepper spray, teargas, rubber bullets, Tasers and other “less-than-lethal” tools to respond. Jack Dalrymple, North Dakota’s governor, also called in the national guard.”

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“Police, who are often armed with large tanks and riot gear, have used pepper spray, teargas, rubber bullets, Tasers and other “less-than-lethal” tools to respond. Jack Dalrymple, North Dakota’s governor, also called in the national guard.”

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This quote from the article is an example of environment racism against the Native Americans because the police and other officials tried to stop peaceful protests by fighting back, and proceeding to build an oil pipeline on sacred Native American ground, potentially threatening the health and safety of their population, should their water source get contaminated.

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This a photo of the anti-pipeline protestors.

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In late August of 2005, a Category 5 hurricane hit the New Orleans area especially hard. There was over $125 billion in damage, and was, at the time, the costliest hurricane on record (now tied with 2017's Hurricane Harvey). There were over 1,800 deaths, being counted for a long time afterwards. Researchers started noticing trends in their data. The dead were overwhelmingly old. The article says that “neither race nor gender made anyone more likely to die, only a failure to evacuate and a location near a levee breach,” which seemed to be a greater problem with the older population, seeing as more than half of the fatalities were older than the age of 75. The older population being less willing or unable to evacuate properly contributed substantially to the death count from Hurricane Katrina.