Environmental
justice is the notion that communities should have
nondiscriminatory treatment and involvement regardless of race and
socioeconomic status in land development, implementation, waste
management and enforcement of environmental laws and policies. It
is imperative for environmental justice to exist so communities of
color are not a part of inequitable housing, waste or toxin
dumping, and are able to access information and vote against
environmentally racist actions. Environmental
racismis the
location of low-income or minority communities in vicinity of
environmentally harmful environments. In other words, the idea of
environmental racism is the knowledge that non-whites are
disproportionately exposed to pollution. Studying environmental
racism is essential not only to conclude if equalities exist, but
to help better comprehend racism. For Laura Pulido, environmental
racism is larger than discriminatory acts, and believes there are
new insights to the subject, predominantly its spatiality. By
limiting the definition of racism to only malicious acts, racial
inequalities that are not ascribed directly to aggression cannot be
recognized.
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Nancy Wride of
the Los Angeles Times reports on the apparent environmental racism
happening in Compton Creek, a creek located within Los Angeles.
Wride investigates that there has been illegal dumping of waste
into the Compton Creek, which leads to the Los Angeles River, and
eventually the ocean. As a way to give California inmates a
productive work detail, the Los Angeles sheriffs department used
those charged with misdemeanors the duty to clean the creek. While
city agencies and the Army Corps agreed to pitch in for the
clean-up, the question remained as to why the sheriffs department
was leading a clean-up when the creek was supposed to be federally
regularly
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