ABSTRACT Using New York City as a case study, this paper examines how zoning and the legal mechanism of zoning changes can con- tribute toward environmental injustice, and offers recommenda- tions for achieving justice through planning. Noxious uses tend to concentrate in poor and minority industrial neighborhoods due to re-zoning more affluent and less minority industrial areas to other uses, and expanding industrial zones in poorer neigh- borhoods and communities of color. This set of practices has been termed "expulsive" zoning, and is characterized by dis- placement of poor and minority people (and industry) from gen- trifying industrial zones, the intrusion of additional noxious land uses into predominantly poor and minority industrial areas, and the concomitant reduction of environmental quality there. Zoning policy, it will be argued, can have adverse impacts on public health and equity, by disproportionately burdening poorer and more minority populations with noxious or environmentally risky land uses. INDUSTRIAL ZONING CHANGES IN NEW YORK CITY A Case Study of "Expulsive" Zoning JULIANA MAANTAY City University of New York, Lehman College, Department of Geology + Geography