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Long: Brownfields bedevil poor communities in Palm Beach County

Long: Brownfields bedevil poor communities in Palm Beach County
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Brownfields in PBC
Imagine living in an environment where you have no control one that is at the mercy of natural disasters, or of being used as a waste dump and having no means to buffer yourself. That is the reality for many low-income Americans, and disproportionately, communities of color.
Palm Beach County is no exception.
Across the United States and Palm Beach County, the decline of industrial production over many decades created a proliferation of unused, contaminated properties. These sites, which contain known or suspected hazardous substances some with soil contamination are referred to as brownfields in urban planning. ....

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“To be poor means that you are living in environments that you don’t control,” said Donna Givens Davidson, president and CEO of Eastside Community Network in Detroit, and a new faculty member in the Earth Institute’s Master of Science in Sustainability Management program. “And it means that people who have more power and money have a way of using those environments for dumping, using those environments for waste. And then, because you don’t have political capital, you don’t even have the means to say, ‘Let’s create buffers and protect ourselves.’” ....

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