Answer to Question 1
TRUE
Answer to Question 2
Environmental justice refers to the efforts to ensure that hazardous substances are controlled so that all communities receive protection regardless of race or socioeconomic circumstance. Low-income communities and areas with significant minority populations are more likely to be adjacent to waste sites, landfills, incinerators, and polluting factories than are affluent White communities. Studies in California show the higher probability that people of color live closer to sources of air pollution. Another study concluded that grade schools in Florida nearer to environmental hazards are disproportionately Black or Latino. People of color jeopardized by environmental problems also lackthe resources and political muscle to do something about it.
Another continuing problem is abuse of Native American reservation land. Many American Indian leaders are concerned that tribal lands are too often regarded as toxic waste dumping grounds that go to the highest bidder. On the other hand, the economic devastation faced by some tribes in isolated areas has led one tribe in Utah to seek out becoming a depot for discarded nuclear waste.
True-color view of Mars seen through NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1999
How Many Indians Perished with European Settlement?
European Cuckoo
A typical bank statement.
Areas of the United States, Mexico, and Cuba will be affected by a rise of just 100 cm
True Dover Sole