According to the text, research on environmental racism indicates that: a. most of the toxic dumps have now been dismantled and cleaned up. b. it is probably not done intentionally and many dumps are also located in white neighborhoods. c. the problem is overstated; it does not occur very often. d. the location of hazardous wastes near minority neighborhoods is too frequent to be occurring by chance.

Researchs on environmental racism indicates that the location of hazardous wastes near minority neighborhoods is too frequent to be occurring by chance (D), and are looking to determine inequalities, reasons for the disparities and to make recommendations on possible policies on the matter. Environmental racism is the idea that black people are more exposed to pollution and not by mere probability, it emerged with the study Toxic Waste and Race in the United States (1987).