Dr. Nicole Fabricant
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124 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Jul
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And they often say, I didn't even know that coal creates harm to respiratory health or to lungs.
We we had no idea.
We just, it's a part of our landscape.
But when it exploded, it raised a lot of questions in the community of why are there so many toxic facilities in this one area?
How can they house a coal export pier a thousand feet?
From a recreation center?
Why should children be playing on slides that are filled with cold dust?
And they wanted answers.
They wanted answers from scientists, especially.
It's where I've come to realize like the social science is not as useful because they wanted data and data, hard numbers that could be used to hold CSX accountable.
And so a team of community-based scientists came.
in and worked with the community.
It was their questions, like how far is the cold dust traveling?
They wanted to know how quickly it was accumulating, where it was accumulating.
And through really rigorous investigation, they were able to collect data and worked with our Maryland Department of the Environment, which is interesting hearing the EPA, because I also don't have a lot of faith in any of these organizations.
Protect us, especially the Maryland Department of the Environment.
But they were part of an inside strategy to work with the regulatory apparatus to create a new permit that would be more stringent based upon the science.
And so part of the permit was to require that they covered the coal pier and they covered the coal trains coming in.
Because people who live in trackside communities.
And so part of our struggle was how do we build a stronger movement beyond just environmental justice and holding CSX?
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