Barboza, Tony. High levels of lead found in blood of children near Exide plant in Vernon.

Los
Angeles Times. LA Times, 8 April 2016. WEB. 9 April 2016. He gives as the latest
information about the high levels of lead in children living near a now-closed Vernon
battery recycling plant. His analysis show that 285 children with elevated blood lead
levels in southeast Los Angeles County communities are near Exide. Tony also concluded
that children living near the facility, about five miles from downtown Los Angeles, were
nearly twice as likely to have high blood lead levels as children countywide, where the
rate was 1.95%.
This is an objective source which emphasizes the high rate of lead which was found in
children who live near Exide plant. His goal is to eliminate that plant because it already
had huge impacts on nearby living residents.
I used this source because it gives us the latest information about the Exide plant and the
amount of lead that it exposed. This gives me more understanding on this problem.
Garrison, Jessica. Lead is found in soil near Exide, State orders battery plant to do more testing
after high levels are found at home and preschool. Los Angeles Times, 11 March 2014.
WEB. 9 April 2016. She talks about elevated levels of lead which have been found in the
soil of homes and preschools near a battery recycling plant in Vernon, prompting officials
to issue health warnings and order more testing in adjacent neighborhoods. Then she
emphasizes that lead is a potent neurotoxin. Children are more vulnerable than adults and
can suffer learning disabilities even with limited exposure.
This is good source which gave me good information about the recent problems which
occurred in Vernon about lead. That can harm the residents lives and can create some
disease like cancer and asthma. Jessicas goal is to highlight the huge problem and
persuade Government Officials the closure of Exide Technologies Plant.
Lujan, Hugo. East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice (EYCEJ). eycej.org. Social and
Environmental Entrepreneurs, 3 April 2016. WEB. 9 April 2016. East Yard Communities
for Environmental Justice (EYCEJ) is a community-based organization that works to
facilitate self-advocates in Southeast Los Angeles and Long Beach. By providing
workshops & trainings, EYCEJ prepares community members to engage in the decisionmaking processes that directly impact their health and quality of life.
This website is really useful for my essay because I found lot of information about Exide
Technologies Inc. which has huge impact on near communities. EYCEJ is an
environmental health and justice non-profit organization working towards a safe and
healthy environment for communities that are disproportionately suffering the negative
impacts of industrial pollution.

This website helped me to get relevant information about different programs and
campaigns which are trying to avoid people from living in hazardous places, like nearby
communities of Exide Recycling Battery Plant. I will use this source to illustrate the
conditions that people of color live and I will talk about environmental health and justice
issues that effected some locations for more than a decade.
Porras, Carlos, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Manuel Pastor Jr., and James Sadd. Environmental
Justice and Regional Inequality in Southern California: Implications for Future
Research. Volume 110 (2002): 149-154. Print. 9 April 2016. In this article authors talk
about evolution of research methodology and results of environmental racism and they
bring some statistical analysis which makes us clear how poverty can affect the
conditions and areas that people live. They also talk about disparities in outdoor air
pollution exposures and estimated cancer risks in Southern California.
This source helped me to bring some statistical examples which show my readers that
how more poor people are exposed to polluted air and water. The writers of that article
convinced me that ethnicity and income had huge impact on people of color and that they
live in harsh conditions because of that.
I will use this source to prove my readers that in reality Blacks, Latinos, Asian Americans
and other people of color didnt have the same opportunities that white people have and
also this article gave me some motivation about possible solutions of this ongoing
problem.
Pulido, Laura. Rethinking Environmental Racism: White Privilege and Urban Development in
Southern California. Massachusetts: Malden, 2000. Print. Geographic studies of
environmental racism have focused on the spatial relationships between environmental
hazards and community demographics in order to determine if inequity exists. Laura
Pulido examines how whites have secured relatively cleaner environments by moving
away from older industrial cores by suburbanization.
Laura Pulido provided me useful information about environmental justice and racism
which contributed my essay. She tried to persuade few readers, like me, that
environmental justice is the primary issue in Los Angeles.
This article helped me to broaden my understanding of environmental justice and I will
use few quotes from the article and will provide explanation about white privilege in
Southern California.