... spotlight and onto the political agenda. In 1983, the United States General Accounting Office conducted a study of several Southern states that found three out of every four landfills were located near predominantly minority communities. In 1987, a Commission on Racial Justice report showed that the most significant factor in determining hazardous waste facility sites, nationwide, was race. The study also found that ... the redressing David Friedman counters Bullard's argument that efforts by activists to ensure environmental justice have "enshrined some of the worst excesses of racia...

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