Social Justice And Environmental Justice

Environmental justice has advocated and made visible the practice of disproportional siting hazardous waste facilities in low income communities of color throughout the United States. Most of the time the state corporate actors are the ones responsible they are the ones who decide where to place the hazardous waste; the state corporate is more concern with where to place the hazardous waste rather than the health and safety of the community, people and their environment.
In 1987 a report was released Toxic Waste and Race by the United Church of Christ Commission on Racial Justice (UCCRJ); the study demonstrated that hazardous waste sites were disproportionately located in low income communities where the residents were colored people. Then