[CPEO-BIF] Fw: Toxic Wastes at Twenty

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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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