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"I see some real classism and environmental racism here," Bercuvitz said.

WTF is wrong with these people?? Pardon my language but for chrissake what in the hell is environmental racism??? These people must sit around all day and think of new things to be offended by and new terms to call them. I really am starting to HATE these people!

what in the hell is environmental racism???

It's a Fashionable Liberal Concept. It refers to the allegedly deliberate choice to put polluting conditions in minority neighborhoods.

You would know this if you had cocktails with liberals more often.

;-)

Pardon my language but for chrissake what in the hell is environmental racism???

It's a legitimate beef, actually. Guys like Bercuvitz are the ones who bear the consequences of NIMBY politics.

Environmentalism is all well and good unless and until it twists the knickers of the rich, white people who "control" the environmental movement.

Wind power, for example, is grand when it only affects poor folks in places where the environmentalists are unlikely to visit. But once you put up windmills in view of Ted Kennedy's house....

I think this guys complaint probably has much deeper roots (even if he hasn't given it much thought). Lots of things the left does, end up flowing down to the poorer segments of society. This one (about which his complaints are legitimate) would have been the last straw.

I attended a public hearing from the Idaho Department of Transportation a couple years ago. They were soliciting public input on placement of new on/off ramps from I-15 to the City of Chubbuck. Associated with various placements was a matching set of surface street plans. While I was looking over a display, a young lady asked the presenter about "environmental justice". I half laughed, half gagged on the question. Later, I looked up the phrase on "Google". I found a fascinating website that detailed ethnic/economic distributions of neighborhoods, location of toxic waste sites around the city and a number of other interesting elements. There was also identification of the level of medical services available to the community. My area is labeled "under served". I can attest that finding a good doctor is difficult here. Ditto for access to services covered under my fairly expensive medical/dental insurance plan. That site would very much impact my choice of where to invest my real estate money in homes and businesses.