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Below is a non-inclusive list of local and state programs According to the Orange County State of Exclusion and initiatives to help address health and race equity. Report, the Rogers Eubanks neighborhood Associa- tion (RENA), between Carrboro and Chapel Hill, is well NC Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities known locally for its 40-year struggle against the land- North Carolina Health Equity Report 2018 fills and a proposed waste transfer station sited in the community by Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County. Orange County Health Department As one of only a handful of African American neigh- borhoods in southern Orange County, Rogers Eubanks Orange County Health Equity Report Card served as a host to the county's only solid waste facility Organizing Against Racism from the 1970's until 2013. The county's recycling facility and a solid waste "convenience center" remain in the Racial Equity Institute neighborhood, which still lacks sewer service despite promises made when the landfill opened. As a result, The State of Exclusion: Orange County, NC the rate of exposure to solid waste facilities for residents Environmental Justice of census blocks that are 75% or more non-White is 17%, as opposed to only 3%for the county as a whole. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines Compared to other wealthy counties, or to the state, environmental justice as "the fair treatment and mean- Orange County has a smaller overall rate of exposure to ingful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, solid waste facilities, but a higher exposure rate for ma- national origin, or income with respect to the develop- ment, implementation, and enforcement of environmen- jority non-White census blocks. Unfortunately, issues of tal laws, regulations, and policies." Because historically environmental racism in Orange County are not limited to the Rogers Eubanks neighborhood. underdeveloped communities have lower property values and less political power, they can be targets for Fairview, a historically African-American neighborhood unwanted facilities. Placing and permitting potentially in Hillsborough, did not gain access to city water until polluting facilities ignores race results in environmental 1988, after it was annexed into the Town of Hillsborough. justice. In 1999, the "Field of Dreams" baseball field was built Table 10: Orange County Solid Waste Exposure Aesidents Of ,J&En E Are 75% Or r �� POPULATION EXPOSURE RATE POPULATION EXPOSURE RATE Orange county residents exposed to a solid waste 6,315 16.72% 133,80 3.20% facilities Tier 3 county residents ex- 732,614 16.72% 4 ° posed to a solid waste facility ,823,641 6.21/North Carolina residents ex- 1,309,105 9.37% ° posed to a solid waste facility 9,535,483 5.34/Tier 3 county residents ex- posed to an EPA monitored 6,315 46.57% 133,80 28.27% pollution source North Carolina residents exposed to an EPA monitored 732,614 51.06% 4,823,641 29.77% pollution source North Carolina residents exposed to an EPA monitored 1,309,105 41.82% 9,535,483 24.25% pollution source 22 2019 COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSESSMENT