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Seventy percent of Superfund sites are within a mile of public housing, report finds

“Environmental racism has played a central role in this devastation,” the report’s authors wrote. “Laws and policies have put Black and Brown communities in direct proximity to environmental toxins.”

File photo of Camden's Superfund site at Fourth and Jefferson Streets. A Shriver Center on Poverty Law report notes that low-income housing is often located near polluted sites.
File photo of Camden's Superfund site at Fourth and Jefferson Streets. A Shriver Center on Poverty Law report notes that low-income housing is often located near polluted sites.Read moreELIZABETH ROBERTSON / Staff Photographer