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.
-Prior to 1970, the location of hazardous sites had been distributed:
A) Relatively evenly across class lines
B) Relatively unevenly across class lines
C) Relatively unevenly across racial lines
D) All of the above.

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The article states that "Prior to the establishment of federal regulations on toxic substances in the early 1970s, the siting of hazardous waste typically occurred in areas where land was economically cheap and sparsely populated." This suggests that the location of hazardous waste sites was distributed relatively evenly across class lines. There is no mention of racial discrimination at this point in time.