By Stuart Batterman and Yu-Ling Huang (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) This article explores how to determine whether disproportionate impacts have occurred or are likely to occur from facilities handling or emitting hazardous substances. It emphasizes the use of risk assessment and other technical assessment techniques in these determinations. A number of … [Read more...] about “Determining the Disproportionate Impacts from Pollution Sources” by Stuart Batterman and Yu-Ling Huang (July-August 1996 P&R Issue)
poverty and race
“The Truth Won’t Set You Free (But It Might Make the Evening News): The Use of Demographic Information in Struggles for Envirnmental Justice in California” by Luke W. Cole (May-June 1996 P&R Issue)
By Luke W. Cole (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) One of the great myths of white America is that the truth will set you free. What I mean by this is that simply being right, or having the truth on your side, does not mean you will win a particular struggle. The struggles communities fighting dangerous and unwanted facilities have been undertaking across the … [Read more...] about “The Truth Won’t Set You Free (But It Might Make the Evening News): The Use of Demographic Information in Struggles for Envirnmental Justice in California” by Luke W. Cole (May-June 1996 P&R Issue)
“The Streets, the Courts, the Legislature and the Press: Where Environmental Struggles Happen” by Rachel Godsil (May-June 1996 P&R Issue)
By Rachel Godsil (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) In November 1995, the East New York Community Committee Against the Incinerator celebrated a victory: the Committee had just defeated a wood-waste incinerator slated for a permit in the primarily African-American and Latino community of Brooklyn's East New York area. A few months later, another Brooklyn … [Read more...] about “The Streets, the Courts, the Legislature and the Press: Where Environmental Struggles Happen” by Rachel Godsil (May-June 1996 P&R Issue)
“Analysis of Racially Disparate Impacts in the Siting of Environmental Hazards” by Thomas J. Henderson, David S. Bailey and Selena Mendy (May-June 1996 P&R Issue)
By Thomas J. Henderson, David S. Bailey and Selena Mendy (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) This article focuses on one aspect of a broad challenge by Citizens Against Nuclear Trash (CANT), a grassroots coalition in Louisiana, to the proposed construction, between two small African American communities-Forest Grove and Center Springs--of the first privately owned … [Read more...] about “Analysis of Racially Disparate Impacts in the Siting of Environmental Hazards” by Thomas J. Henderson, David S. Bailey and Selena Mendy (May-June 1996 P&R Issue)
“Race and Poverty Data as a Tool in the Struggle for Environmental Justice” by Mary L. Moss (July-June 1996 P&R Issue)
By Kary L. Moss (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) This Special Issue of Poverty & Race, for which I am Guest Editor- the second half of which will appear in the next issue-focuses on the importance of racial and other demographic data in the Environmental Justice Movement. A common theme in the four case-studies presented here is the importance of information … [Read more...] about “Race and Poverty Data as a Tool in the Struggle for Environmental Justice” by Mary L. Moss (July-June 1996 P&R Issue)
