This is a topic-guide for environmental justice and environmental racism. Inside it you will find brief introductions to the topic, helpful videos, suggested readings, and links to Iowa State University Library resources.
Air quality concerns can arise from a variety of sources (industry, agriculture, mining). Issues of air pollution and air quality also become issues of environmental justice when marginalized populations are disproportionately impacted.
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Post-Hiroshima, the US Army engaged in classified open-air studies on the effects of aerosol radiation. Low-income African-Americans in St. Louis were the unwitting subjects of that testing, by design.