Industry and government rebut environmental racism claims by denying any racist intent

Evidence

For example, arguments have been offered that low-income citizens and people of color move to already polluted areas because of low-property costs, or those immigrants are simply more likely to work in agriculture or fish for subsistence. In these cases, the argument goes, there is no racist intent on the part of industry or government; and without intent, one does not have deliberate racism or misrecognition. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 220

Categorization

• XREF: The intent-versus-structure rebuttal parallels Southom/the ‘disaster coincides’ dynamic in base-siting literature and moral-panic absence debates. — connects to: Environmental injustice persists without racist intent because bias is structurally embedded — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 221; Courts reject impact-based environmental racism claims absent proven intentional discrimination — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 327; Organizations deny environmental change to protect their established roles and resources. — Robert B. McCalla, NATO’s persistence after the cold war, 71