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Environmental Justice in America.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-DEC-03
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Environmental Justice in America.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Environmental Justice in America

Edwardo Lao Rhodes Indiana University Press iupress.indiana.edu 280 pp., $39.95

Recalling the movement from which he takes his book's title, Edwardo Lao Rhodes takes as his premise in Environmental Justice in America an observation familiar to any trial lawyer who represents victims of pollution and toxic exposure: Environmental hazards and the risks they pose to human health disproportionately affect people who are poor, are members of racial minority groups, or have been deprived of a political voice.

Trial lawyers regularly encounter examples like those he gives in the book:

* Lead poisoning is much more common among the children of African-Americans in the inner city than among whites in better-funded school districts.

* Pesticide poisoning has its...

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