environmental racism
originally and chiefly US
noun
Racial discrimination in the development and implementation of environmental policy, especially as manifested in the concentration of hazardous waste disposal sites in or near areas with a relatively large ethnic minority population.
Origin
1980s; earliest use found in The Washington Post.
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