The whole idea of environmental justice is in keeping with that agenda. There's no justice whatsoever, and there are several places where jobs were going to be located in areas where black Americans could seek employment and EPA has put those companies through a lot of hoops. Yes, and other places down south. I think one has to recognize that there is a trade-off between clean water and clean air and economic welfare. The cost of having one-hundred percent clean air or water is reduced economic activity.
Pollution is a necessary by-product of production.
However, we want to take advantage of the technology that exists to keep pollution to a minimum. As you look around the world, it is poverty, as opposed to dirty air, that has implications for health. Minority leaders support many things that go against the interests of the people they purport to represent, and environmental justice is just one of them. They are against educational vouchers, while the overwhelming majority of blacks are for educational vouchers. They are against the death penalty, even though the majority of blacks are for the death penalty.