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Environmental racism

Environmental policy making or enforcement thereof that specifically and directly affects people of color or certain ethnic/racial groups in a negative manner. Many times this involves limiting such peoples to living on polluted lands, the dumping/releasing of pollution and toxic substances in such people’s communities, or the placement of heavily polluting industrial near or in these communities.


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