Based on unedited interviews conducted between 1979 and 1986, this work argues that the mistrust and anger that followed the disaster at Three Mile Island changed the way residents of the stricken towns Goldsboro and Newberry view government, technology and private enterprise.

Environmental Injustice in the United States provides systematic insight into the social, economic, and political dynamics of environmental decision-making, and the impacts of those decisions on minority communities. The first part of the book examines closely the history of the environmental justice movement and the scholarly literature to date, with a discussion about how the issue made the public agenda in the first place. The second part of the book is a unique quantitative analysis of the relationship among race, class, political mobilization, and environmental harm at three...

Explores the processes by which hazardous waste policies are formulated and implemented. This collection addresses both the international and domestic policy arenas and includes several articles that deal with the landmark 1984 amendments to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.