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US pesticide regulation is failing the hardest-hit communities. It's time to fix it.

18 Jan 2024

The environmental justice movement has come a long way over the past 50 years. There is now wide recognition that all people and communities, regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, have a right to equal protection and equitable enjoyment of the benefits provided by environmental laws and regulations.1 Yet the increasingly well-documented reality is that people of color and low-income communities in the United States and around the world continue to shoulder the societal burden of harmful pollution.
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Authors

Nathan Donley, Robert Bullard

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