(NAME-MCE) FW: [CPEO-BIF] Fw: Toxic Wastes at Twenty

[Pestana, Edith]

This study needs to go on NAME - educators need to know what their
students may have to endure in neighborhoods.

Edith Pestana, MPH
Administrator
Environmental Justice Program
CTDEP
79 Elm Street
Hartford, CT 06106


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New Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty: 1987-2007 Report Completed

This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the United Church of Christ
landmark 1987 "Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States" 
report. As part of the celebration, the UCC commissioned a new study,
"Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty, 1987-2007: Grassroots Struggles to
Dismantle Environmental Racism," led by environmental justice scholars
Robert D. Bullard (Clark Atlanta University), Paul Mohai (University of
Michigan), Robin Saha (University of Montana), and Beverly Wright
(Dillard University of Louisiana). The new report is the first to use
2000 census data, a current national database of commercial hazardous
waste facilities, and Geographic Information Systems to count persons
living nearby to assess nationally the extent of racial and
socioeconomic disparities in facility locations. It also examines racial
disparities by region and state, and for metropolitan areas, where most
hazardous waste facilities are located.

This new report finds that people of color now make up the majority
(56%)of those living near the nation's hazardous waste facilities. 
Where facilities are clustered, people of color make up over two thirds
(69%). The report also enumerates the accomplishments of the
environmental justice movement, focuses on current high profile
environmental justice cases (such as the one in Dickson, TN, that has
been getting coverage by CNN, ABC, and the Washington Post), and
provides policy recommendations for federal, state, and local
governments, NGOs, and industry.

The report can be found at the following web sites:
http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/TWARTFinal.htm
http://www.snre.umich.edu/news/details.php?id=1672

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