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The city council is getting ready to build a new power plant, which is expected to bring jobs to the community, but also generate lots of noise, and low amount of air and water pollution. After a heated debate, the council votes to build the plant in a low-income minority neighborhood even though more land is available on the affluent west side of town. This could possibly be classified as what type of racism:________.

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environmental racism

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Based on the information provided within the question it can be said that this scenario could possibly be classified as environmental racism. This is a concept which describes the environmental discrimination that occurs in many geographical locations both in practice as well as on paper. All of which is based on a racialized context.

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