CASE / 1982–1991

Warren County and environmental-justice organizing, 1982–1991

The Warren County PCB protest, subsequent siting research, and the 1991 national summit principles.

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Check the scope, related ideas, and institutional evidence behind the overview.

Scope, selection, freshness, and background links

Boundary: The 1982 Warren County protest, selected 1983 and 1987 siting studies, and 1991 summit principles; not the whole environmental-justice movement or every later policy attributed to it.

Why this case: The case connects affected-community action to distribution, participation, recognition, and the limits of movement-effect claims.

From Warren County protest to summit principles, 1982–1991 1982–1991

Selected organizing and publications without treating sequence as proof that one protest caused every later development.

Formal design

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Interactions

observation

In 1982, Warren County residents and allied civil-rights and religious organizations used demonstrations and civil disobedience against the landfill, and hundreds of participants were arrested.

Observed outcomes

observation

The protests did not prevent construction and filling of the Warren County PCB landfill.

attributed value

Delegates at the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit adopted seventeen principles linking ecological protection with self-determination, public participation, health, work, and opposition to environmental racism.