Garza, Frida. (2021, February 11). America’s dirty divide: how environmental racism leaves the vulnerable behind. Retrieved August 9, 2021, from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/11/environmental-racism-americas-dirty-divide

 

This article’s main focus is breaking down the basics of environmental justice in an easy to understand way, mainly highlighting environmental racism and what the government was going to do to become closer to achieving environmental justice. This article is the introduction to a series of reports on environmental racism in America, thus did not go into great depth on a specific case, and just provided a general summary and a few examples necessary to understand environmental justice.

 

Although this article was merely an introduction to a series of articles on environmental racism, I would have appreciated the article more if it had gone a little more into depth about one specific example of environmental racism and how the government caused or responded to it, as more of a way to give an example to the reader about what environmental racism looks like in reality. However, it is true that the Guardian’s audience is probably already familiar with this topic, thus further evidence would not be necessary.