Volume 3 Issue 12

Olympia, WA: 11-17-95

In another environmental justice related report, the Washington Department of Ecology (DEC) has found that low income communities in the state of Washington are more likely than other communities to have a hazardous waste site nearby. A health study is planned if funds become available. Longtime readers may recall that some studies claim that hazardous waste facilities seek out low income neighborhoods (the current Administration's Environmental Justice policy seems based upon this assumption) while a number of studies have demonstrated that these areas in question become low income/minority areas after the fact (CWMCN Volume 2, Nos. 4 & 8).

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