Environmental justice scholarship argues state power perpetrates environmental inequalities, but less is known about the U.S. Military’s impact on local urban environmental inequalities. To evaluate the role of the military in contributing to environmental health disparities, I draw on the case study of Las Vegas, Nevada, a southwestern city with active military sites. The analysis uses environmental health, demographic, and Geographic Information System (GIS) data from federal and county agencies. Findings from spatial error models support environmental inequality and treadmill of destruction hypotheses by demonstrating that census tracts in closer proximity to military areas have greater estimated cancer risk from air toxics. Census tracts with a higher percent of poor and Latinx residents, independent of their proximity to military areas, have an additional increase in exposure to air pollution. The case study of Las Vegas offers important lessons of environmental injustice on Latinx environmental health vulnerability and military sites in urban areas.

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军事、种族和城市化：内华达州拉斯维加斯的环境不公正教训

环境正义学者认为，国家权力造成了环境不平等，但对美国军方对当地城市环境不平等的影响知之甚少。为了评估军队在造成环境健康差异方面的作用，我借鉴了内华达州拉斯维加斯的案例研究，这是一个拥有活跃军事基地的西南城市。该分析使用来自联邦和县机构的环境健康、人口统计和地理信息系统 (GIS) 数据。空间误差模型的结果通过证明更靠近军事地区的人口普查区域具有更高的空气毒物致癌风险，从而支持了环境不平等和破坏性跑步机的假设。人口普查区的贫困和拉丁裔居民比例较高，与军事区的距离无关，暴露于空气污染的额外增加。拉斯维加斯的案例研究为拉丁裔环境健康脆弱性和城市地区的军事场所的环境不公正提供了重要的教训。