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The environmental justice movement in the United States has drawn attention to the fact that some communities receive an unequal share of environmental contaminants. Throughout the United States, low-income communities or communities of color receive the largest burdens of air and water degradation resulting in increased rates of diseases such as asthma and lead poisoning for those populations. A host of political and economic factors have also resulted in many communities being harmed by pesticide use and irresponsible land use practices. The federal government has enacted some laws in an attempt to rectify these inequities; however, many in the environmental justice movement have suggested that these policies do little to comprehensively protect the health and well-being of affected communities. As a result, the environmental justice community has called for a response that considers issues of …