Improving Environment By Changing The World: Environmental Justice – Rising from the Flames

From the oil fields in Nigeria to an Ohio school yard downwind from a toxic incinerator, to a Richmond, California community surrounded by industry, inspiring stories of tragedy and the heroic victories of everyday people who are standing up to the deadly practices of big business polluters.  Bios  Terri Swearingen, RN, is an environmental and public health activist renowned for her struggles against dioxin-producing incinerators, especially the infamous WTI (the nation's largest) incinerator sited right next to a school in East Liverpool, Ohio. She founded the Tri-state Environmental Council (Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania), testified before EPA, National Academy of Science and congressional committees and has won countless accolades from sources as varied as Time, E, Mother Jones, Glamour and the Presbyterian Church as well as the prestigious Goldman Prize for environmental activism , and the Ohio Environmental Council Lifetime Achievement Award.  Henry Clark, Ph.D. is Executiv