Birthing the Environmental Justice Movement (from "1980s Environmentalism")

In 1982, a line of trucks rolled into Warren County, North Carolina filled with 60,000 tons of soil contaminated with a cancerous chemical called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. The state government of North Carolina had designated Warren Co. as the site of a landfill for the PCB-laden soil, but local residents pushed back. Brian talks with Rev. William Kearney, associate pastor at Coley Springs Baptist Church in Warren Co., about how the protest is Warren Co. blended civil rights with environmental health, in turn sparking the environmental justice movement.