E nvironmental justice mandates the implementation of environ- mental protections, regulations, and policies equitably to all segments of the population. The protections afforded by the enforcement of existing environmental laws and policies should be levied without respect to geographic location, ethnicity, age, or socioeconomic status. Historically, there is a disproportionate distribution of toxic waste and pollution placed in the communities of people of color and those who are compromised economically. The consequences of the lack of implementation/enforcement of environmental justice include long-standing, deleterious health effects on individuals, who, in most cases, are least equipped to deal with these health problems, as well as economic disaster facing those who are challenged economically already. There are a multiplicity of reasons why this type of environmental discrimination and racism persists in our society despite the growing awareness of impacted communities and their activism against both the perpetrators and the subsequent manifestations of environmental injustices.