It took a special kind of neoliberalism to make room for the concerns of the US grassroots
environmental justice movement. Concerns that non-white and poor communities bore a
disproportionate share of the nation's environmental hazards found a receptive ear in the
Clinton administration, which in the 1990s replaced the aggressive neoliberalization of the
Reagan era with what might be called a" kindlier, gentler" neoliberal project. Although
Clinton's famous Executive Order No. 12898 (" Federal Actions to Address Environmental …

It took a special kind of neoliberalism to make room for the concerns of theUS grassroots
environmental justice movement. Concerns that non-white and poor communities bore a
disproportionate share of the nation's envir-onmental hazards found a receptive ear in the
Clinton administration, which in the 1990s replaced the aggressive neoliberalization of the
Reaganera with what might be called a ''kindlier, gentler''neoliberal project. Although
Clinton's famous Executive Order No. 12898 (''Federal Actions toAddress Environmental …