For R.I.'s Disenfranchised Populations, Their Next-Door Neighbor is Often Pollution

Olneyville’s health and well-being were not priorities when the state agency that rebuilt the 6-10 Connector using 1950s specs allowed the project’s primary developer to dump contaminated dirt in one of Providence's two environmental-justice neighborhoods.

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