Race, not income, best predicts where toxic waste sites are located

Evidence

Bullard, then Distinguished Professor at Texas Southern University and founder of the EPA Office of Environmental Equity, explained that the NIMBY (“not in my backyard”) sentiment regarding toxic sites that many Americans share has another face: “LULUs.” “Race is still the potent factor for predicting where Locally Unwanted Land Uses (LULUs) go. A lot of people say it’s class, but race and class are intertwined.”8 — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 465

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 465
• XREF: connects to: Race, not chance, determined toxic waste site placement in Houston — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 1208; Officials sited toxic PCB dumping in a black county despite contrary scientific criteria — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 1198; Hundreds of thousands of minority students attend schools near toxic contaminated sites — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 1038 (+3 more)