“…Environmental justice scholars assert that the city maintains a history of environmental racism, the product of "pervasive racial exclusion, class domination, political disenfranchisement, and a racially segmented economy" (Bolin, Grineski, & Collins, 2005, 157). As early as the 1920s, white residents had largely abandoned central Phoenix for "racially exclusive white suburbs," leaving an economically disadvantaged minority in the urban core (Bolin et al, 2000;Bolin, Grineski, & Collins, 2005, 158;Sicotte, 2003). This pattern of economic and racial segregation, with poor minorities in the inner city and affluent whites in the outlying suburbs, remains to this day.…”