Remedying Environmental Racism
1991; University of Michigan Law School; Volume: 90; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1289559
ISSN1939-8557
Autores Tópico(s)Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
ResumoIn 1982, protesters applied the techniques of nonviolent civil disobedience to a newly recognized form of racial discrimination. 1 The protesters, both black and white, attempted to prevent the siting of a polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) 2 landfill in predominantly black Warren County, North Carolina. 3 In the end, the campaign failed.Nonetheless, it focused national attention on the relationship between pollution and minority communities 4 and prompted the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) to study the racial demographics of hazardous waste sites.sThe GAO report found that three out of the four commercial hazardous waste landfills in the Southeast United States were located in 1. Charles Lee, Toxic Waste and Race in the United States, in
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