Environmental & Climate Justice
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New maps show strong
correlation between redlined places in Seattle and worse air quality
The Seattle Times, March 2022
Redlining means 45 million Americans are breathing dirtier air,
50 years after it ended
The Washington Post, March 2022
Study: People of color breathe more polluted air, regardless of income
Grist, Dec. 2021
Another power plant might
still come to Newark, despite residents’ pleas to stop
New Jersey Monitor, April 2022
New maps of King County,
Seattle show how some communities are harder hit by heat waves
The Seattle Times, June 2021
Environmental Racism is Real, Destructive and Deadly
Los Angeles Sentinel, May 2021
People of Color Breathe More Hazardous Air. The Sources Are Everywhere.
The New York Times, April 2021
There’s no climate justice
without racial justice
Orlando Sentinel, April 2021
To Build Back Better, We
Must End Fossil Fuel Racism
Greenpeace, April 2021
How computer mapping
could help Biden find and fix polluted neighborhoods
Reuters, April 2021
America's dirty divide: how environmental racism leaves
the vulnerable behind
The Guardian, Feb. 2021
'If white people were still here, this wouldn’t happen': the majority-
Black town flooded with sewage
The Guardian, Feb. 2021
A Black 'Cancer Alley'
Community Makes Gains
Against Massive Plastics Plant
Drilled News, Dec. 2020
How Decades of Racist
Housing Policy Left
Neighborhoods Sweltering
The New York Times, Aug. 2020
When a Virus Exposes
Environmental Injustice
NRDC, April 2020
'Heat islands': racist housing
policies in US linked to deadly heatwave exposure
The Guardian, Jan. 2020
'They chose us because we were rural and poor': when environmental racism and climate change collide
The Guardian, March 2019
US black and Hispanic minorities
bear disproportionate burden
from air pollution
Science Daily, March 2019
People of Color Are on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis
Green American Magazine, Spring 2016
Communities of color are the
‘first and worst’ hurt by climate change; urgent action needed
to change course
The Seattle Times, July 2021
Dr. Robert Bullard: ‘We Don’t
Have 40 Years’ to Fight
for Climate Justice
Civil Eats, July 2021
EPA just detailed all the ways
climate change will hit U.S. racial minorities the hardest. It’s a long list.
The Washington Post, Sept. 2021
Without access to charging
stations, Black and Hispanic communities may be left behind
in the era of electric vehicles
The Washington Post, Dec. 2021
When It Rains in Detroit
The Nation, Sept. 2021
Black people are about to
be swept aside for a South
Carolina freeway — again
The Washington Post, Sept. 2021
Books
Please buy from a black-owned bookstore (click here for a list), your local independent bookstore, or from the Bookshop link provided.
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism
and Its Assault on the American Mind
Harriet Washington, 2019
Watch
Discovering the Flint Water Crisis
Chelsea Clinton and Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha discuss the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. (28 min.)
How heat is radically altering Americans' lives before
they're even born
(6 min.)
Listen
A podcast, by the Southern
Environmental Law Center, with
environmental stories in the South.
Decolonizing Science
The Ecology of Racism
with Chris Schell
Floodlines
Hurricane Katrina. A story of rumors, betrayal, & one of the most misunderstood events in American history. (9 episodes)
Organizations Working for Climate Justice
Generation
Green
Deep South Center for Environmental Justice
Florida Rising
Fueling
the Fire
Southern Enivronmental
Law Center
350 Seattle Action
WE ACT
For Environmental Justice