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1982 Warren County
1media/Screen Shot 2023-03-22 at 5.42.19 PM_thumb.png2023-03-23T00:42:57+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911Warren County, North Carolina, was selected in 1982 by the state government as a landfill site for “6,000 truckloads of soil laced with toxic PCBs”. The residents of Warren County are majority Black and low-income (90% low income, and 66% African American according to Lehmann, 2011), and the carcinogen, PCB, poses a major threat to the health of the community. “But many frustrated residents and their allies, furious that state officials had dismissed concerns over PCBs leaching into drinking water supplies, met the trucks. And they stopped them, lying down on roads leading into the landfill. Six weeks of marches and nonviolent street protests followed, and more than 500 people were arrested—the first arrests in U.S. history over the siting of a landfill.”plain2023-03-23T00:42:57+00:001982Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49