Ciara Dowd is a Legal Researcher at the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre.
Elodie Aba is the Corporate Legal Accountability Project Manager at the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre.
The tiny particles have been linked with widespread environmental damage, as well as cancers and a range of adverse health impacts related to the lungs and heart.
More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente employees in six states and Washington, D.C. are set to stop working for three days starting Wednesday to protest unfair working conditions and unsafe staffing levels.