GalleryTo help communities unfairly burdened with environmental hazards, policymakers should forget race or class thresholds and target the waterfront.
Are areas of greater environmental pollution necessarily associated with poorer and minority communities? While this is undoubtedly the case in some parts of the U.S., new research from Diane Sicotte shows that this link is by no means a universal one. By examining the environmental hazards in 366 communities in Philadelphia, she finds that the 39 communities closest to […]
