BP’s Dumping Oil-Spill Waste in Communities of Color, Study Finds – COLORLINES
More than one hundred days into the BP disaster, folks are wondering where all the oil has gone–much of it seems to have crept under the water’s surface, or maybe evaporated into thin air. But, as officials scramble to assess the pending damage, we do know the destination of around 40,000 tons of the spill waste: it’s headed for the families that have been getting dumped on for years. In what may be yet another calm before the storm, BP’s colorfully advertised waste management plan appears to follow a haunting pattern of environmental racism.
As the article points out, this seems to be the continuation of Katrina’s racially directed inequalities.
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