n 1984, a Los Angeles based company called Cerrell Associates was commissioned by the California Waste Management Board to prepare a report that defines communities that would not resist siting of locally undesirable land use (LULUs). This report, entitled "Political Difficulties Facing Waste-to-Energy Conversion Plant SitingLinks to an external site.," explicitly advised builders of waste incineration plants that they would face less opposition if they put the plants near poor neighborhoods instead of wealthy ones, as shown in this excerpt (p. 26): "All socioeconomic groupings tend to resent the nearby siting of major (waste disposal) facilities, but the middle and upper socioeconomic strata possess better resources to effectuate their opposition, [and] should not fall at least within (five miles) of the proposed site." Suppose you are an environmental engineer serving on a planning board to select a site for a large waste to energy facility in California that is proposing to divert one third of the MSW from the region and produce electricity for 15,000 homes, offsetting the need for coal-fired power generation. The planning board is assessing potential sites for the facility. Some of the site options are located in wealthier neighborhoods with a higher percentage of white residents