Show Ijl aqsrdhA'e-- ! ' NATION The Salt Lake Tribune I - Study: 'Minorities Likely To Live Near Waste Sites By Ken Miller - GANNET? NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON — Despite wide publicity and a Whit House ' edict ordering the goverment to deal with the problem trinorities are more likely now to lite in the shadows of a hazardous-vast- e site than a decade ago a new report I I says Using new computir tech- that overlay comnunities' niques o racial composition witt hazard e plants and waste dumps by ZIP codes retearchers claim the problem of genviron- mental Justice" contnues to plague minorities far fore than whites In 1993 minorities were 47 percent more likely thai whites to live near a commercid hazard- facility Looted at 1 way the percent4ge of minorities in communties with waste facilities is the times 'higher than the percentage of mi norities in communitie without s such facilities s "Higher concentration of hazardous sites corresponis to higher concentrations of peeple of color" said the repor "Toxic ' Wastes and Race Revisted" The study was sponsored b: the Center for Policy Alterndives the NAACP and the United:lurch of Christ Commission for Iacial Jus- 9 tice While the report velifies what — ous-wast- - 4- I ous-was- an-oth- er te - 4 - -- - 4:1 lir detf I : i t tkti 1 tr e' 'I 1' 506 1 Al A oso' s 1') vwopir -'s - 4 1 1i : t tt4c ! e?eN 6 ::641 i toxic-wast- e ' iII :i ' - :--- 0 0 ' mounting in a traditional or contemporary design—all at exceptional values Call now for your personal appointment in Fine Jewelry : - Show Specials One carat round diamond 12 carat round diamond 14 carat round diamond 4 1 :'V ''!:1 !::' - ' - "::::0 4 i :2-t- ' ? 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