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SUMMARY:All-Aboard the Poo-Poo Choo-Choo: Biosolids\, Public Health\, and
  Environmental Justice in Post-War America - Graham Mooney
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DESCRIPTION:This seminar is part of the lunchtime seminar series for the 
 Centre for the History of Science\, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM). Lun
 chtime seminars are typically no more than 30 minutes in length\, follow
 ed by a period for audience questions (ending before 2pm). All are welco
 me.\n\n\nAll-Aboard the Poo-Poo Choo-Choo: Biosolids\, Public Health\, a
 nd Environmental Justice in Post-War America\n\nGraham Mooney (Johns Hop
 kins University)\n\nAbstract:\nThis paper is about the political\, envir
 onmental\, and public health aspects of human waste disposal in modern A
 merica. It reconstructs the ill-fated\, two-month\, 3\,000-mile return j
 ourney in 1989 of a 63-car freight train containing 4\,120 tons of sludg
 e\, which traveled from a waste-water treatment plant in Baltimore to Lo
 uisiana’s "Chemical Corridor" and back again. The train—which a gleeful 
 media dubbed the "Baltimore Poo-Poo Choo-Choo"—became something of a hum
 an interest story as it sought to dump its smelly load in Arkansas\, Mis
 sissippi and Louisiana.\n\nUsing interviews\, newspaper articles\, docum
 entary films\, television reports\, a radio jingle\, a folk music song\,
  technical documents\, and government hearings\, I suggest that the trai
 n’s journey reflects the shifting terrain of municipal political economi
 cs\, public health\, and environmental justice in modern America. Althou
 gh the export of human waste across state lines was fairly commonplace i
 n this period\, the paper argues that the layered geographies of social 
 environmental justice in the American south propelled the Baltimore Poo-
 Poo Choo-Choo to national infamy. Activists and poor black southerners w
 ere briefly united with state and local government agencies in disgust a
 t this out-of-place matter\, at a time when these groups were otherwise 
 at odds over environmental and health injustices to do with garbage disp
 osal\, incineration\, lead smelting\, and petrochemical refineries.\n
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LOCATION:2.57\, Simon Building\, Manchester
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