Environmental Justice
Environmental Justice public policy includes a goal to ensure that harmful human health or environmental effects of government activities does not fall disproportionately upon those with low income and minority populations living and working with the community. The populations impacted may be African-American, American Indian, Asian, Hispanic, the elderly, children or people with disabilities. Those impacts could come from air pollution, noise, safety issues, hazardous materials, limited access to jobs, services and other opportunities, deflated property values, business and/or home displacement, or disproportionate costs of transportation. The social impact could be on neighborhood cohesion and functioning as well as safety and aesthetics.
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