Nixon’s “war” poured money into the National Cancer Institute, helping to bring about the rise of the genetic paradigm in oncology research, but in an unfortunate twist of irony it also led to a decrease in environmental studies of cancer.

the burgeoning environmental groups of the time traced their origins not to the health reformers and “sanitary science” champions of the industrial era, many of whom were women, but to the conservation movement of the nineteenth century—a movement, as the following chapter will explore, shaped by eugenicist, masculinist, and white supremacist ideas

Klein details how labor’s multifaceted visions of health security were thwarted by the emergence of such incentives as employee benefits programs, including employer-based health insurance, a much more limited effort.

by the 1930s, labor movements advocating for what historian Jennifer Klein identifies as “health security” in the New Deal era

settler colonial America has always known that environmental crises are health crises, which is why so many colonial projects have harmed land in order to harm Native communities.

Richard Nixon established the EPA as an entirely separate government agency, that responsibility for environmental protection was moved out of the public health sector, where it had previously been for over a century.

disability scholar activists have made clear that one cannot account for disability by separating human bodies from the built environment in which they live.

Searching for origins is of course not inherently a bad or good practice, but we should be vigilant of what regimes of power such searches uphold, and whom they benefit.

defines environmental racism as a “disabling transit between body and landscape.”