“Look at every black community or poor community,” said Esther Calhoun, a resident who has been involved in numerous lawsuits against the town’s polluters. Black residents in Union Hill, Virginia; North Birmingham, Alabama; Braddock, Pennsylvania; Burke County and Jessup, Georgia; Waukegan, Illinois, and many others have made similar accusations over the past several years. In Uniontown, residents say the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) has not helped. Black and PoorHere in Uniontown, the population is 84 percent black, and 49 percent lives under the poverty level, census data shows. In 2016, the company that runs the landfill hit Black Belt Citizens board members with a $30 million defamation suit.

Source: Huffington Post October 01, 2018 20:15 UTC