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The North Carolina PCB Protest of 1982 was a nonviolent activist movement in Warren County, North Carolina, a predominantly black community where the state disposed of soil laced with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).

Warren County PCB Landfill was a PCB landfill located in Warren County, North Carolina, near the community of Afton south of Warrenton. The landfill was created in 1982 by the State of North Carolina as a place to dump contaminated soil as result of an illegal PCB dumping incident.

Oct 20, 2023 · Four decades removed, Warren County's PCB protests revisited. Read all of our joint coverage with The Charlotte Ledger here. From outliers to luminaries: Warren County’s PCB protests get mainstream attention as more communities grapple with environmental justice issues made worse by climate change.

Dec 13, 2023 · In the summer of 1978, Ward Transformer Company paid a trucking company to drive along rural North Carolina roads at night to discharge liquid contaminated with PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) onto the shoulders of roads.

In December 1978, North Carolina Governor James B. Hunt, Jr. announced a plan to build a toxic landfill in the rural community of Afton (Warren County) to store 60,000 tons of soil laced with cancer-causing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) that had been dumped illegally on 240 miles of North Carolina roadways earlier that summer.

Feb 26, 2013 · In the summer of 1978, a trucking company began to discreetly dump liquid contaminated with PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) along 240 miles of roads in 14 rural North Carolina counties at night. The state quickly responded by constructing a landfill to bury the toxic waste on land purchased from a Warren County farmer.

Jun 1, 2020 · Dr. Robert Bullard of Texas Southern University is known as the "father of environmental justice." A leading activist for the movement since it emerged in the 1980s, he's been at the forefront of the cause and ultimately defined the movement:

ChatGPT: PCB Carolina is an annual trade show and conference focused on the printed circuit board (PCB) design and manufacturing industry. The event is held in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina, United States, and attracts professionals from all over the world.

PCB, or polychlorinated biphenyl, is a toxic chemical that had been dumped along highways in North Carolina in 1978. Through legal action and protests, community members fought the State's decision to store the state's contaminated soil in a toxic waste dump in the mostly-Black community of Afton, NC.