I can tell you about the smells that emerge from these facilities that invade our lives like incoming shells, like bombs, bombing someone's house. Smells of burning sewage, chlorine, trash, rotten eggs, and burning flesh. Me, my family, and other residents in my neighborhood are being murdered. We are being poisoned by asbestos. And what's worse is the fact that we are knowingly being poisoned by asbestos.
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61 ference it would make, must remain speculative for the present. But effective linkages among social aspirations, procedures embraced to pursue them, and desired social outcomes are often undermined in policymaking. Environmental jus- tice as a cause arose in the l980s and emerged on the federal policy agenda in the l990s, timing that tended to constrain the substantive response that might be forthcoming. Environmental policy was already well developed, and the larger regime was in no mood for legislative tinkering on behalf of this new concern. Most siting lay in the hands of state and local authorities in any case, and it was not clear what incentives and penalties could or would be deployed by the federal government at those levels of government in the service of environmental justice.