Transforming Environmentalism: Warren County, Pcbs, and the Origins of Environmental Justice

by Eileen Mcgurty

Contemporary public policy circles are quick to acknowledge that environmental factors contribute to ill health and pose a particular threat to poor and minority communities. But public officials rarely examined the distribution of environmental hazards such as polluted air and contaminated water. In the 1980s, as toxic waste facilities proliferated, the environmental justice movement demanded that impoverished communities no longer be burdened by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813546788
• ISBN13: 9780813546780
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"