Race Based Pollution

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My my my.... who would have thunk it... a disparity in the way pollution is allowed to occur.... tsk tsk tsk... I'm sure this was not by design... it's just "one of those things" that randomly happen... over and over and over and over....

http://www.seeingblack.com/x040901/toxic_gumbo.shtml

A number of studies suggest that such claims are not unfounded. Nationally, a 1987 study by the United Church of Christ's Commission on Racial Justice found Blacks were four times were more likely to live in areas with toxic and hazardous waste sites than Whites. A 1992 investigation by the National Law Journal found that when government does enforce environmental regulation and fine companies, fines are much higher in White communities than in Black ones. In Louisiana, reports by the US Commission on Civil Rights and an unreleased report by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region Six, have raised concerns about the location of chemical plants and their possible impact on the health of their neighbors, who are primarily people of color.