Rio Tinto is being brought to court in other cases as well. In December 2011, a group of US physicians (belonging to the Union of Concerned Scientists) and environmentalists sued the company for violating the Clean Air Act, in the state of Utah. They estimates the mortality, health and environmental costs to the community from the pollution caused by a giant mine just next to Salt Lake City to be between $2 billion and $4 billion.
These two Rio Tinto stories are just a small glimpse of the hundreds of stories of environmental injustice throughout the world. EJOLT is doing a large inventory of such stories. The work on our database has started and will lead to an online, global and interactive map full of options for those seeking more information on specific cases.
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