The State of Exclusion:
In 2013, the UNC Center for Civil Rights published a study which included an analysis of the disproportionate burden segregated non-white communities faced in their proximity to solid waste facilites and EPA monitored polluting facilities:
State of Exclusion Executive Summary
Based upon that original work by the Center for Civil Rights, The Fair Housing Project of Legal Aid of North Carolina partnered with the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network to do a ten-year update, based upon 2020 census data, to determine whether these indicators of environmental racism showed any improvement: