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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

The father of environmental justice

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The First Lawsuit Against Environmental Raceism

The 19 79 lawsuit, bn versus southwestern waste management. Was the first lawsuit to lenge environmental raceism using civil rights law. The legal theory behind being was that placing land fields in ceneratas garbage dumps in black communities was a form of discrimination. But 40 years ago, or forty two years ago, people would laugh at you and say, what has no such thing as en mental races. And we've made progress since then, but there's still a lack of understanding on these issues.

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