One company sited every toxic waste incinerator in communities of color

Evidence

Every single community where Chem Waste operated its toxic waste incinerators is a community of color, and substantially so: 79 percent in Chicago and Port Arthur, in the 90s in Sauget, and 95 percent in Kettleman City. They found out later that Chem Waste had planned to build an incinerator in Tijuana, Mexico, thereby hitting the 100 percent mark. — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 66

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s environmental racism thread — corporate pattern evidence that formal intent disputes in court later had to explain away. — connects to: The single-bad-actor search obscures structural causes of environmental racism — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 97; Detroit’s incinerator concentrates toxic harm on poor communities of color — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1237; Race, not income, best predicts where toxic waste sites are located — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 465

Broader Connections

• Detroit’s incinerator concentrates toxic harm on poor communities of color #exemplifies (0.85) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1237
• Race, not income, best predicts where toxic waste sites are located #corroborates (0.85) — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 465