The second installment in our Ethics in Civil Engineering series takes a look at environmental racism.
From greenaction.org, the factors that culminate into environmental racism are "the institutional rules, regulations, policies or government and/or corporate decisions that deliberately target certain communities for locally undesirable land uses and lax enforcement of zoning and environmental laws, resulting in communities being disproportionately exposed to toxic and hazardous waste based upon race."
So how exactly does it manifest?
So how exactly does it manifest?