Environmental Racism In Florida

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Environmental racism is starting to get attention in Florida legislature. Low-income; minority ; Blacks ; Hispanics / Latinos ; Asians ; Philippines ; Latin American ; factory owners people with people with money. Environmental Racism is something that effect black minority and low- income people around the world. “ The state of Florida needs to take at the factors that have caused this”. What this is that the toxic waste the polluted Florida needs to be check out. In Pensacola , a superfund site abuts a play area where most of the children are black. Toxic chemicals produced throughout the world are found in extremely high levels in Inuit people’s bodies and in

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