the.com/environmental racism
the toxic waste plant is never zoned for the rich neighborhood, funny how that works.
means the pattern by which pollution, contamination, and environmental hazards are disproportionately placed near communities of color, whether by policy, neglect, or design.
from coined in 1982 by civil rights leader benjamin chavis during protests over a pcb landfill dumped in a majority-black county in north carolina, naming a pattern activists had watched play out for decades.
warren county1982 protests are considered the movement's founding spark
redlining linkformerly redlined areas run hotter and more polluted today
flint michiganlead-poisoned water became the era's defining case study