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18 EPA J. 6 (1992)
Race, Poverty, and the Environment

handle is hein.journals/epajrnl18 and id is 7 raw text is: The issue RACE, POVERTY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT The Disadvantaged Face Greater Risks by Paul Mohai and Bunyan Bryant Americans have tended to assume that pollution is a problem faced equally by everyone in our society. But awareness and concern about inequities in the distribution of environmental hazards have been steadily increasing. The first event to focus national attention on environmental injustice occurred in 1982 when officials decided to locate a PCB landfill in predominantly black Warren County, North Carolina. Protests very similar to those of the civil rights movement of the 1960s erupted. They led to an investigation the following year by the General Accounting Office (GAO) of the socioeconomic and racial composition of communities surrounding the four major hazardous waste landfills in the South. The GAO report found that three of the four were located in communities that were predominantly black. The Warren County incident and the GAO report led the United Church of Christ's Commission for Racial Justice, EPA JOURNAL

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