The International Human Rights Clinic at John Marshall made a submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee listing a number of issues concerning the unsafe dumping and mismanagement of coal ash in Puerto Rico.
The IHRC has investigated human rights abuses arising out of environmental injustices imposed on communities in the southern municipalities of Puerto Rico and found violations of international human rights, and specifically of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The submission was written by Professors, and Co-Directors of the IHRC, Sarah Davila-Ruhaak and Steven Schwinn, along with students Eduardo Cisneros, Deborah Ragbir, Trent Rehusch, Dante Violette and Renlin Pan.