Environmental racism in the United States

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On the Reservations: No Haste, No Waste
By Marjane Ambler, MCLR-L list (Midwest Consortium for Latino Research), November 1991. The dumping of wastes on Indian reservations has been determined in the past by state and federal regulations which did not take into account the wishes of the tribes. Now many tribes around the country are involved in controlling environmental decisions on the reservations.
Environmental Racism and Economic Injustice in Olympic Atlanta
Press release, 30 July 1996. Atlanta’s African American community paid the highest price for the Olympics to be held in Atlanta. Refusal to enforce the law would have allowed Microlife, Inc., ACOG’s contractors for Olympic waste, to operate a temporary waste processing facility in predominantly Black South Fulton County neighborhoods.
Study Finds Link between Incinerators, Minority Status and Cancer in Michigan
Press Release by the Michigan Environmental Council, Tuesday 26 November 1996. The study shows a strong link between various types of pollution sources and minority status.
Environmental racism: The uneven distribution of risk
PR Central, 2 May 1998. Charges of environmental racism, increasingly being leveled against corporations and government agencies, bring activists from the environmental and civil rights movements together, and appeals to the public’s sense of fairness in a way that calls to save the spotted owl can never do.
Black American Groups Take Environmental Racism Issue to UN
EarthVision Reports, 6 April 1999. The group accuses the United States Government of allowing ethnic minority and low-income communities to be disproportionate targets for toxic waste dumps or polluting factories. This neglect is a human rights abuse.
People of Color Battle Toxics in Communities Across the U.S.
By Cat Lazaroff, Environment News Service, 11 February 2000. Children from Memphis, Tennessee and Pine Bluff, Arkansas, are in Washington to draw attention to the sixth anniversary of President Bill Clinton’s executive order on environmental justice. The order, Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations, was intended to focus federal attention on the environmental and human health conditions in minority communities and low-income communities.
It’s A Survival Issue: The Environmental Justice Movement Faces The New Century
By Jeff Chang and Lucia Hwang, ColorLines, Summer 2000. In 1991, the National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit literally changed the face of environmental and community organizing. Authors look at the Summit, its legacy, and the prospects for the coming 10th Anniversary Summit.
Touring Cancer Alley
By Juanita Marie Holland, Africana.com, 21 June 2001. Snaking along an 80-mile stretch of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, the Celebrity Tour traveled Cancer Alley, so-called for its dense cluster of petrochemical plants, oil refineries and other toxic industries.
Put It In Blacks Backyard
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, The Hutchinson Report, 25 June 2001. Blacks have repeatedly denounced corporate polluters and public officials for dumping environmentally risky power plants and waste sites in their neighborhoods. They label this racially-warped policy, PIBBY or, put it in blacks backyard.