… As these remarks by President Clinton suggest, environmental hazards represent major health
… In several respects, environmental hazards pose a greater health threat than the dreaded …

The growth of the environmental justice movement in the USA surprised even the most
seasoned of policy-makers by its speed and the magnitude of its impact on USA national policy (…

… the race and class differentials in exposure to toxic hazards … to known hazards includes (1)
presence of hazardous waste … various environmental hazards, eg, toxic releases and hazards …

… EPA that environmental hazards disproportionately impact … people of color to discuss
environmental equity issues. It is also … impact of environmental hazards upon communities of color …

… found that race is the single best predictor of where commercial hazardous waste facilities
… "virtually impossible" that the nation's commercial hazardous waste facilities are distributed …

… In the concluding section, we discuss environmental justice research (EJ) which we argue
is a rich source of observations on race, class, and environmental hazards across a range of …

… on race and the incidence of environmental hazards, bringing together scholar-activists
interested in the issues and providing some national visibility to the debates on environmental …

… of environmental hazards by both income and race. We also … and race in the distribution of
commercial hazardous waste … the social distribution of environmental hazards (see Table 1). A …

… An additional area of contribution from this study derives from our focus upon race-…
environmentally hazardous facilities. Some studies on the distribution of environmental hazards …

… of the global distribution of these environmental hazards, their manifestation at different …
In this first chapter, we shall examine the general characteristics of environmental hazards, …