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Siting of Hazardous Waste Landfills and Their Correlation With Racial and Economic Status of Surrounding Communities

United States General Accounting Office · 1983

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The consulted United States General Accounting Office manifestation of Siting of Hazardous Waste Landfills and Their Correlation With Racial and Economic Status of Surrounding Communities.

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  • North Carolina selected a predominantly Black Warren County community for a landfill holding soil contaminated by illegal PCB dumping elsewhere in the state.

    • supports · pp. 1–4 and appendix I

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

    • supports · pp. 1–4 and appendix I

  • The 1983 General Accounting Office study found that three of four southeastern hazardous-waste landfills it examined were in majority-Black communities and that all four surrounding communities had relatively high poverty rates.

    • supports · digest; pp. 1–4 and 14–16