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Hazardous Waste Exportation: The Global Manifestation Of Environmental Racism, Hugh J. Marbury
Hazardous Waste Exportation: The Global Manifestation Of Environmental Racism, Hugh J. Marbury
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
During the last decade, the United Nations and other international organizations have been struggling with the issue of hazardous waste exportation to developing countries. At the same time, the United States has been grappling with environmental racism. However, critics of both hazardous waste exportation and environmental racism have overlooked their similarities, namely, that hazardous waste exportation and environmental racism place a disproportionate burden on the same classes of people, the poor and minorities. The exportation of hazardous waste to developing countries is essentially environmental racism on an international scale.
This Note briefly explains the history and economic motivations behind hazardous …