Environmental injustice in Clean Water Act enforcement: racial and income disparities in inspection time

Decades of research has documented that people of color and low-income experience disproportionate environmental burdens, with recent empirical studies showing these burdens are exacerbated by disparities in government regulatory enforcement. Scholars’ attention to enforcement disparities as a sourc...

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Main Authors: David M Konisky, Christopher Reenock, Shannon Conley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2021-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1225