Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Environmental Justice: Opposing a Toxic Waste Landfill

In this video segment, adapted from 'Earthkeeping: Toxic Racism,' learn about the beginning of the environmental justice movement. Meet various experts and leaders who describe the issues of environmental racism and justice, and learn about the watershed event - the controversy over the location of a toxic landfill in Warren County, North Carolina - that brought the issues to national attention in the early 1980s. See footage of the residents protesting the transport of PCB-contaminated soil to their community, and hear about how the incident triggered further investigations into the relationship between communities of color and toxins. Includes background essay and discussion questions. [4:33]