WGS160Y1 Final: exam readings.docx compilation .docx
25 Apr 2013
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Monday september 17: environmental justice and environmental racism: Warren county, north carolina a small community where the community activists provided ways for the organization to a broad national movement for env justice. Most local movements starting point in 1982 in afton warren county less than 20,000 population. In 1982 afton was selected as the location for 142 acre toxic waste site that would serve as the dumping site for soil highly contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (pcbs) transported from other parts of the state. The contaminated soil was the result by robert j burns trucking company of pcb - it is a oil that had come from ward transfer company in nc. The pcb soil led the us environmental protection agency to state the area as high risk. The superfund site- this means an uncountable or abandoned place where hazardous waste is located affecting local ecosystems or people.
