... prosecuting the corporation responsible, the state was still left with the dilemma of removing the chemicals and finding a new, safer storage place. That winter, the state proposed 142 acres of land in Warren County to become the site of the landfill. Although deemed ecologically destructive to the community by its citizens, in 1979, the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claimed the ... problem, and Friedman does not contest Bullard's allegations, but merely explains that poverty is much more detrimental to minority health than pollution, and, thus, "separating minorities ...

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