Officials sited toxic PCB dumping in a black county despite contrary scientific criteria

Evidence

Governor James B. Hunt Jr. militated for its disposal in predominately African American Warren County as the “best available site.”4 However, scientific criteria, such as the distance from groundwater or likelihood of leaching, did not support his administration’s description of Warren County as the “best” site. — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 1198

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 1198
• XREF: connects to: Race, not income, best predicts where toxic waste sites are located — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 465; Race, not chance, determined toxic waste site placement in Houston — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 1208; General Motors paid only $507,000 for 25 years of PCB dumping — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 111