Environmental Justice And The E.P.A.
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Environmental Justice and the E.P.A.
Environmental justice has slowly gained consciousness of the
American people, from racial events in the 1960s and 1970s to the
confrontation of this issue by national environmental leaders. It
became a real issue, with true roots and a real name, in North
Carolina's Warren County in 1982. National black leaders were
protesting what they called an unfair siting of a waste facility
-- in a depressed area. Benjamin Chavis, Jr., defined
environmental justice as "racial discrimination in environmental
policymaking, enforcement of regulations and laws, and targeting
of communities of color for toxic waste disposal and siting of
polluting industries." This definition has since been broadened to
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