Transforming Environmentalism¶
McGurty, E. M. (2007). Transforming Environmentalism: Warren County, PCBs, and the Origins of Environmental Justice. Rutgers University Press.
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- Environmental Justice
- The state chose a poor, majority-Black county to site a landfill for soil contaminated with PCBs, and hundreds of residents lay down in front of the trucks — the protests are widely credited as the birth of the U.S. environmental-justice movement
This sourceA book-length account of the Warren County landfill fight, where residents lay down in front of trucks delivering PCB-contaminated soil.
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“studies of [residents] living near the landfill”
- The state chose a poor, majority-Black county to site a landfill for soil contaminated with PCBs, and hundreds of residents lay down in front of the trucks — the protests are widely credited as the birth of the U.S. environmental-justice movement
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