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Harmony between Man and His Environment: Reviewing the Trump Administration’s Changes to the National Environmental Policy Act in the Context of Environmental Racism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2022

Gabrielle M. Kolencik
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Abstract

This article aims to show how the changes to NEPA by the Trump Administration are an act of environmental racism, defined as “[i]ntentional or unintentional racial discrimination in environmental policy‐making, enforcement of regulations and laws, and targeting of communities for the disposal of toxic waste and siting of polluting industries.”

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Environmental RacismNational Environmental Policy ActEnvironmental JusticeTrumpBiden
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Symposium Articles
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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 50 , Issue 1: Health Law and Anti-Racism: Reckoning and Response , Spring 2022 , pp. 76 - 84
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