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Green Video of the Week: Anderson Cooper Tackles Environmental Racism
Nicole Hughes June 19, 2008 | 9:42 am EST
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Our green video of the week shows CNN’s Anderson Cooper tackle the topic of environmental racism. Environmental racism refers to the idea that race and class determine which areas you’ll find good things like parks and trees, and which areas you’ll find not so good things like pollution-pumping factories and industrial waste depots. A 2005 Associated Press study found that black people were 79% more likely than whites to live in neighborhoods where industrial pollution is thought to impose the greatest health risks: 

Everywhere in the world - including in the U.S. - the poor and disenfranchised bear the brunt of the biggest environmental burdens.Sustainable South Bronx is an organization that is fighting environmental racism in New York and around the country. takepart and find out more about their environmental sustainability projects online.

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