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Is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency brownfields assessment pilot program environmentally just?

In the early 1990s, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) started a grant program to assist communities redevelop brownfields, which are abandoned or underutilized sites that have real or perceived contamination. In addition to determining if the communities receiving the grants were t...

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Autores principales: Solitare, Laura, Greenberg, Micheal
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1241170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11929735
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description In the early 1990s, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) started a grant program to assist communities redevelop brownfields, which are abandoned or underutilized sites that have real or perceived contamination. In addition to determining if the communities receiving the grants were the most distressed cities in the United States, we also evaluate the U.S. EPA program in terms of environmental justice at the macro scale. Using 1990 U.S. Census of Housing and Population data and a matched-cities methodology, we compared the brownfields pilot cities to other communities in the United States. We found that regardless of intent, the U.S. EPA program is environmentally just by disproportionately awarding grants to the most economically distressed cities. We also found that the cities that received funding in the early years of the program were more economically distressed than cities receiving the funding more recently.
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spelling pubmed-12411702005-11-08 Is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency brownfields assessment pilot program environmentally just? Solitare, Laura Greenberg, Micheal Environ Health Perspect Research Article In the early 1990s, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) started a grant program to assist communities redevelop brownfields, which are abandoned or underutilized sites that have real or perceived contamination. In addition to determining if the communities receiving the grants were the most distressed cities in the United States, we also evaluate the U.S. EPA program in terms of environmental justice at the macro scale. Using 1990 U.S. Census of Housing and Population data and a matched-cities methodology, we compared the brownfields pilot cities to other communities in the United States. We found that regardless of intent, the U.S. EPA program is environmentally just by disproportionately awarding grants to the most economically distressed cities. We also found that the cities that received funding in the early years of the program were more economically distressed than cities receiving the funding more recently. 2002-04 /pmc/articles/PMC1241170/ /pubmed/11929735 Text en
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title_sort is the u.s. environmental protection agency brownfields assessment pilot program environmentally just?
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