Environmental Justice: The Economics of Race, Place, and Pollution

While reading this article, it gave me a further understanding of how environmental racism has been affecting low-income neighborhoods. This is something we've been talking about in my Race and Resistance class which shows us how low-income neighborhoods tend to have dumpsites nearby, oil refineries, a much more. This is true because, in Richmond, my neighborhood lives close to the Chevron Oil Refiner and a couple more hazardous sites that have affected many Richmond citizens for the longest. According to ClimateCenteral.org," The people of Richmond live within a ring of five major oil refineries, three chemical companies, eight Superfund sites, dozens of other toxic waste sites, highways, two rail yards, ports and marine terminals where tankers dock". This has proven to cause a lot of asthma in a lot of Richmond residents as 80-90% of residents living in North Richmond, San Pablo, and Atchison Woods District have asthma. 

I'm sure there are a lot of low-income neighborhoods like the ones all throughout Richmond and the ones from the article are being affected by the toxic/hazardous sites being brought into their neighborhoods by companies like Chevron and much more.