In The Early 1980S, Environment Justice Activist Prioritized

In the early 1980s, Environment Justice activist prioritized their efforts to focus on the unequal amounts of waste dumps in minority communities. The increased awareness of these situations led to the development of EJ from the civil rights movement that happened around the same time. Environmental Justice is defined by its recognition that, â€Å"disparate and disproportionate environmental impacts occur among different communities across racial and socio-economic lines, affected communities should be appraised of environmental issues affecting them, and these communities should be incorporated in any decision-making process.† (Middendorf, 2007) Through the first and third components of environmental justice, a lot of social†¦show more content†¦This movement is centered around two issues which are the, â€Å"siting and expansion of hazardous and undesirable facilities in poor and minority communities and the effort to remediate, relocate, and/or pay damages to m embers of poor and minority communities affected by pollution.† (Allen 2007). Some of the specific environmental inequalities that happened after the storm was through the disposal of disaster debris in inappropriate locations with improper remediation and indiscriminate mixing of hazardous and nonhazardous waste. An example of this would be when the EPA and Federal Emergency Management Agency were reluctant to act and clean up the debris after the storm because state officials were worried about opening neighborhoods so that residents could return and return to stimulating the economy of that area in New Orleans. Government agents in some under privileged, urban and lower and middle class neighborhood were simply hoping the rain and the material would simply wash away but as it has rained it created lots of very toxic sludge. 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