Environmental Justice
Overview
Many of the most dangerous and pressing environmental hazards in the world today are highly localized. In a country where overwhelming residential segregation is a still a fact of day-to-day life, this inevitably means that these issues are also tied to race. It should come as no surprise to anyone to learn that most of those communities that are most frequently exposed to environmental hazards are communities of color. The resources in this section provide some principles of environmental justice and document several profound racial inequities in environmental quality. Examples of work in this area are also included.
Key sites
- Environmental Justice/Environmental Racism
- Energy Democracy for All
- Our Power Campaign: Communities United for a Just Transition
- The Environmental Justice Movement
- Climate Justice Alliances
- Sunrise Movement
Research
- Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality
- In the Wake of the Storm Environment, Disaster, and Race After Katrina
- Regeneration: Young People Shaping Environmental Justice
- Air of Injustice: African Americans & Power Plant Pollution
- Targeting "Cerrell" Communities
- Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty: 1987-2007Grassroots Struggles to Dismantle Environmental Racism in the United States
- The State of Diversity in Environmental Organizations
- Climate Inequality: Forgotten History
- The Flint Water Crisis: Systemic Racism Through the Lens of Flint
- Fourth National Climate Assessment - Tribes and Indigenous Peoples
- Leaking Talent: How People of Color are Pushed Out of Environmental Organizations
- Water/Color: A Study of Race & The Water Affordability Crisis in America's Cities
- Climate Refugees The Climate Crisis and Rights Denied
- The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save our Planet - Part Three Heal our Planet
Practices
- Green Equity Toolkit
- Principles of Environmental Justice
- Risk Assessments vs. Alternatives Assessments: Who get the benefits and who get the risks? Who decides?
- Fertile Ground: Women Organizing at the Intersection of Environmental Justice and Reproductive Justice
- Environmental Justice Leadership Forum on Climate Change - Principles
- Environmental Justice Collaborative Model: A Framework to Ensure Local Problem-Solving
- Everybody's Movement: Environmental Justice and Climate Change
- Environmental Justice Cultural Studies
- Oakland Climate Action Coalition: A Toolkit to Create Climate Action in your Community
- Changing the Economics of Climate Injustice
- Equity Project Worksheet: Adding an Equity Lens to a Sustainability or Climate Action Initiative
- Organizing Cools the Planet: Tools and Reflection to Navigate the Climate Crisis
- We Are Mother Earth’s Red Line: Frontline Communities Lead the Climate Justice Fight
- Water Equity and Security in Detroit's Water and Sewer District
- Why Climate Action is the Antithesis of White Supremacy
- From the Margins to the Mainstream Lessons from the Clean Power Plan for Alignment, Leadership, and Environmental Justice
- Environmental Justice: Moving Equity from Margins to Mainstream
