Is an ideal that can be summarized as:
"All people have a right to a clean environment, and all people have a right to accessible natural resources."
— McIntosh and Pontius, 2017
This right is grounded in the fact that while environmental hardships effect everyone, vulnerable and poor populations often suffer a larger and unequal share of those burdens.
Dr. Robert Bullard defines environmental racism as:
"... any policy, practice, or directive, that differently affects or disadvantages (whether intended or unintended) individuals, groups, or communities based on race or color."
— Dumping in Dixie, 1990
The NIMBY - "Not In My BackYard" - phenomenon (Wikipedia) is one of the most common ways that environmental racism and injustice is perpetrated and sustained.
A wide variety of topics can be examined as issues of environmental justice and/or environmental racism. In general, for a topic to be considered an environmental justice topic it must:
For a topic to be considered environmental racism the race or ethnicity of those involved must also be a factor.
Dumping in Dixie: race, class, and environmental quality by 
Clean and White: a history of environmental racism in the United States by 
Is Science Enough? forty critical questions about climate justice by 
From the Ground Up: Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities by 
As Long As Grass Grows: the indigenous fight for environmental justice, from colonization to Standing Rock by 
Climate Change from the Streets: how conflict and collaboration strengthen the environmental justice movement by 
Failed Promises: evaluating the federal government's response to environmental justice by 
From the Ground Up: environmental racism and the rise of the environmental justice movement by 
Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic by McIntosh, A. and J. Pontius. 2017. "Air Quality and Atmospheric Science" in Science and the Global Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-801712-8.00003-2
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