From "Historical Context and Hazard Waste Facility Siting: Understanding Temporal Patterns in Michigan" by Robin Saha and Paul Mohai
The authors provide a changing historical account of the development of public environmental concern about hazardous waste sites, delineating three periods characterized by changing public concern, legal standing/responsibility for the siting of hazardous waste, and political participation in movements to structure the siting of hazardous waste. The authors maintain that varying levels of concern and participation in conjunction with changing legal responsibility for siting and the evolving dynamics of deindustrialization led to racial and class discrimination in the siting of waste.
-Public concern about environmental issues/hazardous wastes has remained relatively constant between 1970-1990.

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The authors argue that public concern about hazardous waste sites has not remained constant but has evolved over time, influenced by various factors including legal, political, and social dynamics, leading to changing patterns in the siting of hazardous waste facilities and associated environmental justice issues.