Failed Promises: Evaluating the Federal Government's Response to Environmental Justice

by Athena Dixon

Book Overview

A systematic evaluation of the implementation of the federal government's environmental justice policies.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the U.S. Congress passed a series of laws that were milestones in environmental protection, including the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. But by the 1990s, it was clear that environmental benefits were not evenly distributed and that poor and minority communities bore disproportionate environmental burdens...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262527359
• ISBN13: 9780262527354
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher