02/15/2022
Dr. Robert D. Bullard is regarded by many as "the father of environmental justice." He is a sociologist who, since 1979, has been the leading expert on environmental racism in the American South and the United States as a whole. He led a study, 'Solid Waste Sites and the Black Houston Community,' which showed more comprehensively than ever before that garbage dumps, landfills, and other toxic waste sites are mostly situated in primarily non-white neighborhoods, by the decisions of white-dominated government bodies. He told Grist magazine, "Without a doubt, it was a form of apartheid where whites were making decisions and black people and brown people and people of color, including Native Americans on reservations, had no seat at the table."
http://drrobertbullard.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Bullard-Solid-Waste-and-Houston-Black-Community_Sociological-Inquiry-Vol-53-Spring-1983_4-7-14.pdf
https://grist.org/article/dicum/
Evidence of environmental racism and activism against it are widespread throughout the United States and beyond. The damage to human and non-human health caused by toxic waste, fossil fuel refineries, and other industrial facilities is horrifying, and infuriating. A good place to begin your research into this overwhelming issue is this Library Resource Guide on Environmental Racism and the Environmental Justice Movement, which the Green Team initiated last year.
https://edcc.libguides.com/environmental_racism
