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Charting A Path Forward In Environmental Justice

Using data science and maps to visualize historical inequities and climate change, GRP Science Policy Fellow, Simone Chapman is working to make strides in environmental justice.





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Biden-Harris Admin Routed ‘Environmental Justice’ Cash To Left-Wing Activists, House Report Details

https://dailycaller.com/2024/11/04/biden-harris-admin-environmental-justice-cash-left-wing-activists/ By Nick Pope The House Energy and Commerce Committee released a new report Monday detailing how the Biden-Harris administration has given huge amounts of taxpayer cash to left-wing activist groups under the guise of “environmental justice.” The report highlights how the Biden-Harris Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) used hundreds of millions of dollars from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) […]




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Critics blast regulators over Colorado’s first use of new environmental justice law in fuel-storage controversy

For people living near a gasoline storage facility in Commerce City, the company’s decision to cancel its expansion near an elementary school was an environmental victory.




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Dismantle the 'Environmental Justice' Juggernaut

Eliminating this pernicious policy should be on the Trump administration's first week to-do list.




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Toxic truths : Environmental justice and citizen science in a post-truth age [Electronic book] / ed. by Thom Davies, Alice Mah.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2020]




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Take Note: Robert Bullard On The Critical Role of Environmental Justice

Robert Bullard has spent four decades shining a light on issues of environmental racism and fighting for environmental justice. He talks with WPSU's Cheraine Stanford about how the coronavirus pandemic is highlighting existing social inequalities and why he thinks climate and environmental justice are essential issues for the upcoming election. TRANSCRIPT: Cheraine Stanford: Welcome to Take Note on WPSU. I'm Cheraine Stanford. Robert Bullard is an environmental advocate and sociologist who has spent his career shining a light on issues of environmental racism and fighting for environmental justice. He's the distinguished professor of urban planning and environmental policy at Texas Southern University. Among his many accolades, he was the first African-American to receive the Sierra Club's highest honor ,the John Muir award. He's been called the Father of Environmental Justice. Dr. Bullard and I are talking via Zoom today. Dr. Bullard, thank you so much for joining us today. Robert




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Issues Of The Environment: The Relationship Between Environmental Justice And Winter Health

A number of Americans have difficulty paying their energy bills, which can be very dangerous to a person's health during the winter months. Dr. Tony Reames, an assistant professor at the U-M's School for Environment and Sustainability, is now researching ways to better understand the correlation between environmental health and income. Dr. Reames discusses his work with WEMU's David Fair for this week's "Issues of the Environment."




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Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks at the White House Forum on Environmental Justice

"In our nation’s ongoing struggle to ensure environmental justice, I am proud to count you all as partners," said Attorney General Holder.




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Justice Department and EPA Officials Focus on Environmental Justice in Newark, New Jersey

Senior environmental enforcement officials from the U.S. Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) toured sites in Newark, N.J., today and met with federal partners and with environmental and community organizations to discuss mutual efforts to address environmental challenges and enforce environmental laws, and in particular efforts to achieve environmental justice.



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Quote of the Day: Michael Schade on PVC and Environmental Justice

Sam Suds and the Case of PVC The entire life cycle of PVC is an issue of environmental justice and racism. Many PVC plants are located near poor and communities of color. These facilities have poisoned workers and fence-line neighbors, polluted the




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The 20th anniversary of the environmental justice executive order

On February 11, 1994, President Bill Clinton signed an executive order designed to bring about environmental justice.




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Climate change from the streets: how conflict and collaboration strengthen the environmental justice movement / Michael Méndez

Dewey Library - GE235.C25 M45 2020




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Environmental justice in postwar America: a documentary reader / edited by Christopher W. Wells

Dewey Library - GE230.E594 2018




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Environmental justice, popular struggle and community development / edited by Anne Harley and Eurig Scandrett

Dewey Library - GE220.E58 2019




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Environmental justice and land use conflict : the governance of mineral and gas resource development / Amanda Kennedy

Kennedy, Amanda (Law teacher), author




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Revitalizing urban waterway communities : streams of environmental justice / Richard Smardon, Sharon Moran, and April Karen Baptiste ; with contributions from Blake Neumann and Jill Weiss

Smardon, Richard C., author




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Linking health hazards and environmental justice




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Community impact assessment and environmental justice for transit agencies




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[ASAP] Environmental Justice Dimensions of Oil and Gas Flaring in South Texas: Disproportionate Exposure among Hispanic communities

Environmental Science & Technology
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c00410