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In 1992 Wright became the founder and executive director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ) at Dillard University. [4] [5] The DSCEJ is a community–university partnership that investigates the impacts of environmental and health inequality along the Lower Mississippi River Industrial Center, which is so polluted that it became known as Cancer Alley.
Peggy Shepard, at left, and Jane Fonda speak onstage as part of a November 2019 podcast on climate change and climate justice hosted by Saks Fifth Avenue and American Express in New York City.
Environmental justice is a social movement that addresses injustice that occurs when poor or marginalized communities are harmed by hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses from which they do not benefit. [1] [2] The movement has generated hundreds of studies showing that exposure to environmental harm is inequitably ...
Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc., 528 U.S. 167 (2000), was a United States Supreme Court case that addressed the law regarding standing to sue and mootness. The Court held that the plaintiff residents in the area of South Carolina's North Tyger River had standing to sue an industrial polluter, against whom ...
Ali Zaidi: September 16, 2022 — Gina McCarthy: January 20, 2021 September 16, 2022 — Deputy National Climate Advisor. Ali Zaidi: January 20, 2021 September 16, 2022 — Special Presidential Envoy for Climate: John Podesta: March 6, 2024 — John Kerry: January 20, 2021 March 6, 2024 — Chief of Staff for the Office of Domestic Climate ...
OpEd: A resort to weapons is a surrender to the forces of fear and futility, and away from truth, reason, and humanity, the qualities that make America “America.”
Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement is a book edited by David Pellow and Robert Brulle. The impetus for the book came from presentations at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Chicago. [ 1 ]
The Environmental Justice Atlas, sometimes known as EJAtlas is a website that documents environmental conflict. [ 1 ] The website was published by Environmental Justice Organisations, Liability and Trade (Ejolt) and moderated by the Autonomous University of Barcelona . [ 1 ]