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Article: More Nonwhites Are Living Near Toxic Waste Sites; Racial Disparities Have Grown Despite National Focus on Issue
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- The Washington Post
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- August 25, 1994
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Despite growing national attention to the issue of
"environmental racism," nonwhites are more likely to live in
communities with commercial hazardous waste facilities than they
were a decade ago, a new study has concluded.
Updating a landmark environmental demography report issued in
1987, the study, based on 1990 census data, found that the
percentage of nonwhites in the United States who live near toxic
waste dumps increased from 25 percent to almost 31 percent, despite
widespread publicity given to the racial disparities in the
intervening decade.
Moreover, in the areas with the highest concentration of
hazardous waste sites, the percentage of nonwhites last year
continued to be ...