But Robert Bullard, who heads the Environmental Justice Resource Centre at Clark Atlanta University, sees the shipment of waste from one county to a poorer, blacker one as part of a longstanding pattern that sees minority communities disproportionately burdened with hazards.

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Solar Frontier, a Japanese company that is part of oil company Showa Shell, built a 900-megawatt factory and began shipment from there in early 2011.

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