Monday, May 7, 2007

Study: Mostly minorities live near hazardous waste

May 5, 2007 - Nearly 90 percent of the people who live near a commercial hazardous waste site in the Baton Rouge area are minorities, according to a new study.

The burden of pollution falling on black people here and nationally has gotten worse rather than better in the past 20 years, according to Robert Bullard of Clark Atlanta University.

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