Read About Environmental Justice

Research & Reports:

Iowa Energy Justice Snapshot 

The People, The Place: Native Americans in Iowa 

Principals of Environmental Justice 

Toxic Waste and Race in the United States:  A National Report on the Racial and Socio-Economic Characteristics of Communities with Hazardous Waste Sites

Disparities in distribution of particulate matter emission sources by race and poverty status

Confronting Environmental Racism in the 21st Century. Race, Poverty & the Environment

Inequity in consumption of goods and services adds to racial–ethnic disparities in air pollution exposure

Fumes Across the Fence-Line:  The Health Impacts of Air Pollution from Oil and Gas Facilities on African American Communities

Diversity in Environmental Organizations Reporting and Transparency

House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis

Sustainability: Approaches to Environmental Justice and Social Power

‘Tragedy of the commons’ as conventional wisdom in sustainability education

Enhancing racial diversity in the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences

Facing the diversity crisis in climate science

The whiteness of green: Racialization and environmental education

Environmental Justice and Philanthropy: Challenges and Opportunities for Alignment

Making the Business Case for Sustainability: Linking Social and Environmental Actions to Financial Performance

Climate and Energy: The Outliers

Making the Business Case for Campus Sustainability

United Nations Disability and Development Report:  Realizing the Sustainable Development Goals by, for and with persons with disabilities

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Books 

Books by Dr. Robert Bullard, "Father of Environmental Justice"

The colors of nature: Culture, identity, and the natural world (2011) by Alison Hawthorne Deming  

Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman and Karen Washington

Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States by Carl A. Zimring 

Environmental Inequalities:  Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana 1945-1980 by Andrew Hurley

Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger by Julie Sze

Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945 by Ellen Spears

Toxic Communities:  Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility by Dorceta E. Taylor 

A Terrible Thing to Waste

Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States

Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility

Until the Flood

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News and Blog Articles 

A Movement Is Born: Environmental Justice and the UCC

The EPA chose this county for a toxic dump because its residents were ‘few, black, and poor’

The Summit: Transforming a Movement

The Rise of Environmental Justice

Black Environmentalists Talk About Climate and Anti-Racism

Environmental Inequalities  

Climate Racism is Real.  Researchers Found it in U.S. Cities

A Texas Town Takes on Fracking as a Racial Justice Issue

How Environmental Racism is Fuelling the Coronavirus Pandemic

"Two different realities": Why America needs environmental justice 

It's Time for Environmental Studies to Own Up to Erasing Black People 

More Than 200 Environmentalists and Land Defenders Murdered in 2019

The Environmental Justice Movement

Aftermath of Katrina:  A Time of Environmental Racism

Pulling Down Our Monuments

The Environmental Movement Needs to Reckon with Its Racist History

Why Environmental Studies is Among the Least Diverse Fields in STEM

Green science’s white people problem

There Is No Climate Justice Without Racial Justice

Why I Quit Being a Climate Activist

The Racist Gatekeepers of American Land

'Bees, not refugees': the environmentalist roots of anti-immigrant bigotry

Stop Asking People of Color to Get Arrested to Protest Climate Change

'A lot at stake': indigenous and minorities sidelined on climate change fight

Environmentalism’s Racist History

Environmentalism’s elitist tinge has roots in the movement’s history

Racism Is Killing the Planet

Want to Be an Environmentalist? Start With Antiracism

Uninsulated from Harm

UN Report Finds Inclusion Gaps for People with Disabilities

The Land-Healing Work of George Washington Carver

The Origins of Environmental Justice-and Why It's Finally Getting the Attention it Deserves

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