title: Environmental equity: the demographics of dumping.
abstract: Research addressing "environmental equity" and "environmental racism" claims that facilities for treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous wastes (TSDFs) are located disproportionately in minority areas. In the first comprehensive study of TSDFs to use census tract-level data, we find no nationally consistent and statistically significant differences between the racial or ethnic composition of tracts which contain commercial TSDFs and those which do not. TSDFs are more likely to be found in tracts with Hispanic groups, primarily in regions with the greatest percentage of Hispanics. Different geographic units of analysis elaborate on, but are consistent with, these results.
authors.affiliation: Social and Demographic Research Institute, University of Massachusetts-Amherst 01003-4830.
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Anderton
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Oakes
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Fraser
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006256:Hazardous Waste / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011204:Poverty Areas; D011287:Prejudice; D012307:Risk Factors; D014481:United States; D014484:United States Environmental Protection Agency
chemical_list: D006256:Hazardous Waste