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Environmental Racism
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Environmental racism is the disproportionate burdening of minority and low-income neighborhoods with hazards: toxic waste facilities, landfills, industrial pollution.
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The 1987 UCC Commission for Racial Justice found race a stronger predictor than income of hazardous-waste-facility siting; Robert Bullard's later work extended that finding.
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Environmental racism names a documented distributional pattern; it requires no individual siting decision be made with explicit racial intent.