Companies target hazardous waste expansions by low political activity, not race

Evidence

Hamilton, James, Testing for Environmental Racism: Prejudice, Profits, Political Power? 14 Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 107 (1995) (levels of political activism, not race, were negatively associated with the probability of expansion, controlling for socioeconomic and other factors, demonstrating that companies, when calculating where to expand hazardous waste processing capacity, are more likely to target areas with lower levels of potential political activity). — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 801

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the chapter 4 claim about neutral-cost logic of siting firms; complicates the racial-intent premise at the heart of the book’s legal critique. — connects to: Post-siting market dynamics cannot explain current disproportionate siting patterns — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 352; Race is the strongest predictor of hazardous waste facility siting in the US — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 208

Broader Connections

• Race is the strongest predictor of hazardous waste facility siting in the US #contradicts (0.90) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 208