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Abstract

Throughout the history of the United States, corporate facility polluters have been targeting low socioeconomic status and high minority communities across the country. This has been displayed through countless studies including this thesis and accompanying literature, Environmental Justice: The Economics of Race, Place, and Pollution; a 2019 article by Banzhaf, Ma, and Timmins. Yet, there is only little information about the relationship between corporate facility pollution and governmental actions. This thesis individually and collectively compares the correlation between the change in corporate pollution from 2016 to 2020 with minority and poverty rates in 2016. This time period was chosen to represent the Trump presidency’s abolishment of hundreds of environmental laws and policies. It was found at the county level that changes in pollution emissions between 2016 and 2020 are positively correlated with counties of high minority status and negatively correlated with counties of high poverty status. It is difficult to estimate if either of these relationships were completely associated with the modification in environmental policies during the Trump presidency, but it is deemed a reasonable suspect.

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