1. The EPA and the Office of Environmental Justice
... 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 site could ... both the civil rights and environmental movements laid down in front of trucks carrying PCB-contaminated soil into the largely African-American Warren County - already inundated with more industry t...
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