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From:Natural Resources Journal (Vol. 58, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFor the last thirty years, environmental justice, that is, the equitable distribution of environmental pollution among all members of society, has informed environmental decision-making at every level of government....
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From:UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy (Vol. 38, Issue 1)The Arctic Outer Continental Shelf is the next great legal battleground over oil and gas resources, environmental protection, and environmental justice. The Arctic is home to an array of sensitive ecological resources...
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From:UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy (Vol. 40, Issue 1)Environmental movements have been hindered in utilizing disparate impact as an effective legal mechanism for change. Since the 2001 Sandoval ruling limited the private right of action for Title VI disparate impact...
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From:The Social Science Journal (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAccording to Deehon Ferris, a member of the EPA's Environmental Justice Advisory Panel, "The failure to recognize the inextricable link between the legacy of poverty and racism leads to [the] development of...
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From:The American Enterprise (Vol. 9, Issue 6)Charges that environmentally hazardous economic businesses affect minorities more than white Americans are untrue. Many such charges are based on flawed studies. Environmentalists should also realize prohibitions against...
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From:Afterimage (Vol. 46, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGolden, Colorado, February 21-23, 2019 At the 13th annual Colorado Environmental Film Festival (CEFF), one motifpulsed across the screens: environmental justice is social justice. The mission of the festival has...
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From:Loyola Law Review (Vol. 58, Issue 2)EJ 2014 & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE INITIATIVES Robert Verchick (Moderator): It's my pleasure right now to introduce a good friend that I met while I was working in government at the EPA. I am going to introduce the...
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From:Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 26, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWe are already living with climate change. While the political arguments about causes and responses drag on, the people who are directly affected by its very real and increasing effects are beginning to face the urgent...
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From:Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 23, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed"Benefit-sharing" is a technical term that was popularized by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which was adopted at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This global convention aims to achieve...
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From:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 31, Issue 5)
Healthy children, healthy communities: schools, parks, recreation, and sustainable regional planning
INTRODUCTION If current trends in obesity, inactivity, and disease continue, today's youth will be the first generation in this nation's history to face a shorter life expectancy than their parents. (1) Physical... -
From:Alternatives Journal (Vol. 29, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEIGHT years ago, I went to the team of professors planning environmental studies curriculum at my university and asked them to include information about environmental racism in our course work. I had heard about...
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From:Alternatives Journal (Vol. 29, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBLUE VINYL, Judith Helfand and Daniel B. Gold, directors, New York: Toxic Comedy Pictures, 2001. 95 min. WHAT could be more banal than the vinyl siding on the suburban home? Co-directors Judith Helfand and Daniel B....
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From:Trial (Vol. 30, Issue 12)The environmental justice movement has gained considerable strength in the last decade. Carol Browner, the Environmental Protection Agency head appointed by the Clinton Administration, plans to make environmental justice...
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From:The Review of Policy Research (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis paper contributes to the environmental justice literature by addressing several outstanding issues in a single study. Using a cross-time data set that allows us to control for the prevalent "chicken-and-egg" or...
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From:Human Rights (Vol. 46, Issue 4)Science is a public good. This has long been the American vision, from Benjamin Franklin's hope that the people, armed with knowledge, could govern effectively, to Abraham Lincoln's belief that the power of innovation...
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From:Journal of Environmental Health (Vol. 84, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedI breathe out. Trees breathe in. Life is tethered to this relationship. I ponder this unspoken arrangement while motoring on I-80 east of Savannah, Georgia, at daybreak, a time of day that delivers an ethereal setting...
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From:Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems (Vol. 26, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOn October 28, 2016, the student editors of the Journal of Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems ("TLCP") hosted a symposium to honor the late Professor Burns Weston, (1) to celebrate the publication of...
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From:Omni (Vol. 16, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedImpoverished minority groups are starting to utilize civil rights laws to fight against the environmental degradation that disproportionately affects their neighborhoods. Minorities have found that the promised jobs...
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From:Harvard Law Review (Vol. 135, Issue 7)ENVIRONMENTAL LAW--RACE--FIFTH CIRCUIT JUDGES CAST DOUBT ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SUITS.--Rollerson v. Brazos River Harbor Navigation District, 6 F.4th 633 (5th Cir. 2021). The path toward an environmentally just...
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From:UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy (Vol. 26, Issue 2)I. INTRODUCTION Over the past two decades, the environmental justice movement has made numerous inroads in defining a number of problems as environmental racism and environmental inequalities. Entire areas of...