That winter, the state proposed 142 acres of land in Warren County to become the site of the landfill. ... In a moving show of civil disobedience, activists from both the civil rights and environmental movements laid down in front of trucks carrying PCB-contaminated soil into the largely African-American Warren County - already inundated with more industry than any of the other counties in North Carolina. The Warren County demonstrations did not stop the new landfill, but they thrust the issue of environmental racism into the national spotlight and onto the political agenda. ... Bullard cites ...

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