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The modern environmental justice movement in the US emerged in 1982 when a predominantly African American community in Warren, North Carolina protest the establishing of hazardous waste landfill in their community.
In 1982, the modern environmental justice movement initiated from the protest in Warren, Norh Carlina. A small primarily African American community was assigned as a location of hazardous waste landfill. A hazardous waste landfill is a storage, treatment, and disposal facility for hazardous waste and can lead to air pollution and bad odor in the surrounding areas. The landfill was expected to receive PCB contaminated soil that resulted from illegal toxic waste dumping along roadways. As a reaction to the state’s decision, there were massive protests conducted by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and others resulting in over 500 arrests. Although the Warren county failed in its attempt to prevent the siting of the disposal facility, it did provide a national initiation to environmental justice.
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