‘Environmental classism’ refers to policies or practices that impact less favourably on working-class individuals and groups with respect to the quality of their living, working and leisure environments.

Cancer Alley (French: Allée du Cancer) is an area along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, in the River Parishes of Louisiana, which contains numerous industrial plants.

The term was coined with the 1987 United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice report “Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States,” which documented that hazardous waste facilities were far more likely to be sited in African American or Latino communities than in those primarily populated by whites.

Environmental injustice can be defined as the disproportionate exposure of commu- nities of color and the poor to pollution, and its concomitant effects on health and environment, as well as the unequal envi- ronmental protection and environmental quality provided through laws, regulations, governmental programs.

Social inequalities are indeed important drivers of ecological crises: they increase the ecological irresponsibility of the richest in society and among nations, the demand for economic growth of the rest of the population, increase social vulnerability, lower environmental sensitivity and hamper the collective ability …

Environmental inequality results from the unequal distribution of the risks and benefits that stem from interactions with our environment. There are several dimensions of environmental inequality where the EEA produces relevant knowledge, explored in turn below.

The power-weighted social decision rule suggests that inequality in environmental exposures that disproportionately burden less politically powerful segments of society—including racial and ethnic minorities—may result in higher overall levels of pollution.

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Although amended by E.O. 12948 in 1995 to alter time frames for certain actions, E.O. 12898 has not been revoked and has continued to apply to executive departments and agencies. Under E.O.

We find that on average 17.6% of total inequality is unfair – that is, that it can be explained by violations of equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty. Starting from a level of 0.023 (16.6%) in 1969, unfair inequality attained a level of 0.130 (32.6%) in 2012.