| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms in Title or Summary |
| Michael Chachura |
OLD PIPES IN BRICK CITY: EQUAL PROTECTIONS & THE NEWARK WATER CRISIS |
22 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 123 (2020) |
This note addresses the current water crisis in Newark, New Jersey and the unique ways in which the crisis can be solved. Residents of Newark have been harmed by the crisis and can employ environmental justice and constitutional principles to seek relief. These environmental justice principles could also be applied to other cities when this... |
2020 |
Yes |
| Sacred B. Huff |
OVERCOMING ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: A LESSON FROM THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 |
11 George Washington Journal of Energy & Environmental Law 22 (Summer, 2020) |
By March 2016, the Flint, Michigan Water Crisis dominated national news. Headlines describing how the city's drinking water had become lead-contaminated after local officials switched the city's water source to save money sparked a new round of conversation about the regulation of pollution. Yet, environmental justice advocates maintain that... |
2020 |
Yes |
| Leora Friedman |
RECOMMENDING JUDICIAL RECONSTRUCTION OF TITLE VI TO CURB ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: A RECKLESSNESS-BASED THEORY OF DISCRIMINATORY INTENT |
32 Georgetown Environmental Law Review 421 (Winter, 2020) |
Environmental racism involves the federal government's sponsorship or licensing of private entities that discharge environmental hazards (such as air pollution flowing from nuclear power plants) in communities largely comprised of minority races or ethnicities. It also includes federal funding of state agencies involved with these private projects.... |
2020 |
Yes |
| D. Lee Miller , Ryke Longest |
RECONCILING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE WITH CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION: A CASE STUDY OF NC SWINE CAFOS |
21 Vermont Journal of Environmental Law 523 (Spring, 2020) |
Introduction: the Big Pig Problem. 523 Chapter I: Rise of the Resistance. 526 Chapter II: New Actors Change Strategic Landscape. 532 Title VI Complaint. 532 Nuisance Suits. 533 Corporate Sustainability. 536 Chapter III: Reconciling Climate Change Mitigation with Environmental Justice. 539 Conclusion. 542 |
2020 |
Yes |
| Clifford J. Villa |
REMAKING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE |
66 Loyola Law Review 469 (Summer, 2020) |
From movements for civil rights in the 1960s and environmental protection in the 1970s, the environmental justice movement emerged in the 1980s and 1990s to highlight the disparate impacts of pollution, principally upon people of color and low-income communities. Over time, the scope of environmental justice expanded to address concerns for other... |
2020 |
Yes |
| Rebecca Bratspies |
RENEWABLE RIKERS: A PLAN FOR RESTORATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE |
66 Loyola Law Review 371 (Summer, 2020) |
These bills could represent the dawn of a new era for millions of New Yorkers and also a blueprint on how a green and sustainable city could operate in the twenty-first century, This paper makes the case that the City of New York should use the closure of its Rikers Island jail as a moment for restorative environmental justice. The very name... |
2020 |
Yes |
| Hannah Lustman |
SICK UNCERTAINTY: HOW EXECUTIVE THREATS TO EPA PROGRAMS FOR THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER THREATEN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE |
10 Arizona Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 465 (Summer, 2020) |
The U.S.-Mexico Border is in the midst of a decades-long environmental health crisis. Unsafe and discriminatory land use practices, pollution, and lacking infrastructure are among the problems causing Border residents to become sick. They suffer from third world health afflictions in the Southwest corner of the first world. Because residents of... |
2020 |
Yes |
| Nicholas J. Schroeck |
THE FLINT WATER CRISIS, DRINKING WATER REGULATIONS AND GAPS IN LEAD, COPPER, AND LEGIONELLA PROTECTIONS |
97 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 509 (Spring, 2020) |
The Flint Water Crisis was an entirely preventable environmental and public health disaster. The City of Flint is majority African American and nearly half the population lives below the federal poverty line. Because of these demographics, Flint is considered an environmental justice community. Environmental justice communities are characterized as... |
2020 |
Yes |
| Brie Sherwin |
AFTER THE STORM: THE IMPORTANCE OF ACKNOWLEDGING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND DISASTER PREPAREDNESS |
29 Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum 273 (Spring, 2019) |
The past decade has brought on some of the worst cases of flooding due to natural disasters and the resulting leaching of some of the most hazardous environmental contaminants back into nearby, often low-income, communities. Natural disasters are not great equalizers when it comes to recovery. Lower-income individuals are more likely to live in... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Alexis Zendejas |
DESERVING A PLACE AT THE TABLE: EFFECTING CHANGE IN SUBSTANTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL PROCEDURES IN Indian COUNTRY |
9 Arizona Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 90 (Spring, 2019) |
This note explores how tribal-federal relations have impacted environmental justice efforts in domestic pipeline construction in and around Indian Country. The impact these poor relations have had on indigenous peoples has the potential to adversely affect indigenous people and their reservation and ancestral lands. This note discusses how the... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Judge Bernice B. Donald , Emily P. Linehan |
DIGNITY RIGHTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT: AFFIRMING HUMAN DIGNITY THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE |
25 Widener Law Review 153 (2019) |
What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another. --Chris Maser, Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest Throughout history, we have been spurred to action after tragic events we did not foresee or did not act quickly enough to prevent. As we have... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Bethany Sullivan |
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN Indian COUNTRY |
55-APR Arizona Attorney 22 (April, 2019) |
The term environmental justice is evocative but elusive, subject to a broad array of interpretations and rallying cries. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency defines environmental justice as the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development,... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Maia Dombey |
ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: HOW GOVERNMENTS ARE SYSTEMATICALLY POISONING IndigenOUS COMMUNITIES & THE U.N.'S ROLE |
27 University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review 131 (Fall, 2019) |
This note examines the practice of toxic waste dumping on indigenous lands and how it fits within the broader concept of environmental racism. It further evaluates the international human rights framework and how the United Nations and other international bodies interact with this concept and provide means for protection against this illicit... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Machara Mccall, Esquire |
ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: THE U.S. EPA'S INEFFECTIVE ENFORCEMENT OF TITLE VI OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 |
13 Southern Journal of Policy and Justice 49 (Fall, 2019) |
African-Americans have often been regarded as being less--less protected, less educated, and lesser than their counterparts. Through this ideology emerged practices and policies of disenfranchisement and disparity. Environmental racism is a conspicuous part of the American sociopolitical system and, as a result, black people in particular, and... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Julia Mizutani |
IN THE BACKYARD OF SEGREGATED NEIGHBORHOODS: AN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE CASE STUDY OF LOUISIANA |
31 Georgetown Environmental Law Review 363 (Winter, 2019) |
America's history of Jim Crow segregation, redlining, and exclusionary zoning in combination with its present-day zoning laws and siting processes have created toxic communities in predominately black and poor neighborhoods. Existing policies and laws that are meant to remedy such disparities all have flaws which render them too weak to repair the... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Nadia B. Ahmad |
MASK OFF --THE COLONIALITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE |
25 Widener Law Review 195 (2019) |
Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest. --José Rizal His writings sparked the Philippine Revolution. Officials in the Spanish colonial government would execute him for the crime of rebellion. Even though he did not partake in the planning of the revolution, he... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Marianne Engelman Lado |
NO MORE EXCUSES: BUILDING A NEW VISION OF CIVIL RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE |
22 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change 281 (2019) |
INTRODUCTION. 282 I. RACIAL INEQUALITY IN EXPOSURE TO HEALTH HAZARDS. 286 II. THE APPLICABILITY OF CIVIL RIGHTS LAW TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE CONTEXT. 288 A. Enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 288 B. Why Environmental Laws Are Inadequate to Address Racial Disparities. 291 III. A GAPING HOLE: EPA'S POOR RECORD OF CIVIL... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Candice Youngblood |
PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE THEIR MOUTH IS: ACTUALIZING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE BY AMPLIFYING COMMUNITY VOICES |
46 Ecology Law Quarterly 455 (2019) |
This Note seeks to paint a picture of what working toward environmental justice should look like. Focusing on the demands that environmental justice communities voiced through the Principles of Environmental Justice, it posits that three key components are necessary to comprehensively achieve environmental justice: distributive justice,... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Charles E. Murphy |
REMIXING RIVERSIDE: ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AND HIP HOP AS A MIRROR OF SOCIETY |
42 North Carolina Central Law Review 97 (2019) |
Hurricane Katrina struck the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama in the early hours of August 29, 2005. Many New Orleans residents could not afford to evacuate the city, so they remained in their homes or sought shelter in the Superdome football stadium and New Orleans Convention Center. By 11:00 a.m., Hurricane Katrina's strongest winds... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Uma Outka , Elizabeth Kronk Warner |
REVERSING COURSE ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE UNDER THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION |
54 Wake Forest Law Review 393 (Spring, 2019) |
This Article traces how policy reversals in the first years of the Trump Administration implicate protections for diverse, low-income communities in the context of environmental pollution and climate change. The environmental justice movement has drawn critical attention to the persistent inequality in exposure to environmental harms, tracking... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Rachel Calvert |
REVIVING THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE POTENTIAL OF TITLE VI THROUGH HEIGHTENED JUDICIAL REVIEW |
90 University of Colorado Law Review 867 (Summer, 2019) |
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act has unrealized potential to correct the racialized distribution of environmental hazards. The disparate impact regulations implementing this sweeping statute target the institutional discrimination that characterizes environmental injustice. Agency decisions routinely deny claims that federal funds are contributing... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Oliver A. Houck |
SHINTECH: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AT GROUND ZERO |
31 Georgetown Environmental Law Review 455 (Spring, 2019) |
This is a history of environmental justice in the American South, and more particularly Louisiana, where low-income communities of color are surrounded by some of the largest petro-chemical complexes in the world. It rises from a proposal to site yet another giant facility, Shintech, within a population already exposed to nation-leading volumes of... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Joshua C. Gellers, Trevor J. Cheatham |
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: REALIZATION THROUGH DISAGGREGATION? |
36 Wisconsin International Law Journal 276 (Spring, 2019) |
Introduction. 276 I. Defining Environmental Justice. 278 Figure 1: Relationship Between Elements of EJ and Cognate Forms of Justice. 287 II. Linking the SDGs to Environmental Justice. 287 Figure 2: Distribution of Environmental Justice Components Among the SDGs. 291 III. Data and Methods. 292 IV. Empirical Analysis of Voluntary National Reviews.... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Alexandra McGee, Shalini Swaroop |
THE POWER OF POWER: DEMOCRATIZING CALIFORNIA'S ENERGY ECONOMY TO ALIGN WITH ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE PRINCIPLES THROUGH COMMUNITY CHOICE AGGREGATION |
46 Ecology Law Quarterly 985 (2019) |
Community choice aggregation energy programs have proliferated throughout California as a tool for public municipalities to aggregate their communities' electricity demand and procure electricity for themselves. Through their community choice aggregation programs, communities have reduced their electricity-related greenhouse gas emissions in order... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Brie D. Sherwin |
THE UPSIDE DOWN: A NEW REALITY FOR SCIENCE AT THE EPA AND ITS IMPACT ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE |
27 New York University Environmental Law Journal 57 (2019) |
Because of changes to EPA that began under the leadership of former Administrator Pruitt, many career scientists are arguing that science is increasingly under attack. These changes have resulted in increased secrecy within the agency, the systematic removal of academic scientists from key advisory roles, and a 60 percent reduction in enforcement.... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Barry E. Hill |
TIME FOR A NEW AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT FOR U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? |
49 Environmental Law Reporter News & Analysis 10362 (April, 2019) |
The issue of environmental injustice has again come into sharp focus in the wake of the predominantly African-American community in Flint, Michigan, being exposed to lead-contaminated drinking water. To secure environmental justice for all individuals and communities, living in a clean, safe, and healthy environment in America should be considered... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Jonathan Zasloff |
W(H)ITHER ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE? |
66 UCLA Law Review Discourse 178 (2019) |
This Article considers Gitanjali Nain Gill's recent book Environmental Justice in India, the first comprehensive look at India's National Green Tribunal. India's environmental crisis--major international surveys highlight its severe environmental degradation--is of interest to the global public, for no progress on climate change can be made without... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Matthew J. Rowe , Judson Byrd Finley , Elizabeth Baldwin |
ACCOUNTABILITY OR MERELY "GOOD WORDS"? AN ANALYSIS OF TribAL CONSULTATION UNDER THE NationAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT AND THE NationAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT |
8 Arizona Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 1 (Spring, 2018) |
The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) brought issues of environmental justice, energy development, and Native American sovereignty to worldwide attention. Central to this dispute was the definition of meaningful consultation within the context of the National Environmental Policy Act (1969) and the National Historic Preservation Act (1966). Many... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Maryam Hatcher , Ben Wilson |
ACHIEVING THE "JUSTICE" IN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: WHY DIVERSITY IN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW IS VITAL |
23-APR NBA National Bar Association Magazine 16 (April, 2018) |
Environmental Law impacts other people is a refrain we have heard throughout the years from law students and young attorneys of color questioning the value of pursuing a career in Environmental Law. The idea that environmental issues are unimportant to the Black community or other communities of color has been touted as one of the reasons why... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Erin E. Mette |
ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE IN MICHIGAN AIR PERMITTING |
63 Wayne Law Review 385 (Winter, 2018) |
I. Introduction. 385 II. Background. 387 A. Sources of Air Pollution in Southeast Michigan. 388 B. Health and Environmental Concerns for Residents. 390 C Environmental Racism and Injustice. 392 D. Current Structure of Air Pollution Regulations in Michigan. 394 1. Federal Regulations. 395 2. State and Local Regulations. 395 III. Analysis. 397 A.... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Jeremy Orr |
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ACT OF 2017: A FIGHTING CHANCE FOR FRONTLINE COMMUNITIES |
24 Hastings Environmental Law Journal 303 (Summer, 2018) |
Since the release of the United Church of Christ's landmark Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States report in 1987 and the 1992 release of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Reducing Risk for All Communities report, our Federal Government has been well aware that the health of communities of color and the poor are... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Mary Kathryn Nagle |
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND TribAL SOVEREIGNTY: LESSONS FROM STANDING ROCK |
127 Yale Law Journal Forum 667 (January 20, 2018) |
The environmental movement in the 1970s secured many landmark victories, including the passage of important legislation and the establishment of the EPA. However, these activists, while identifying critical environmental problems, failed fully to consider their cause. In particular, the environmental movement ignored the longstanding... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Tamar Meshel |
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN THE UNITED STATES: THE HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER |
8 Washington Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 264 (July, 2018) |
Many low-income communities, communities of color, and indigenous communities in the United States are suffering from unequal access to safe and affordable water. This is partially the result of an ineffective and fragmented legal framework governing water issues in the country. In addition, the notion of a human right to water and sanitation,... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Eric Jantz |
ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM WITH A FAINT GREEN GLOW |
58 Natural Resources Journal 247 (Summer, 2018) |
For 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. While most Federal agencies responsible for environmental regulation have taken meaningful steps to address the disparate impacts of... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Sumudu Atapattu |
EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES AND INEQUALITY: INTERSECTIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE |
50 Arizona State Law Journal 431 (Summer, 2018) |
From Shell Oil in Ogoniland, Nigeria to Chevron in Ecuador, and from Bhopal, India to Freeport-McMoRan in Indonesia, the world is replete with examples of corporate excesses and impunity. Time and time again we hear of gross human rights violations and severe environmental degradation associated with multinational corporations operating in... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Stephanie H. Jones |
GREATER THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS: THE INTEGRATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY AND ECONOMIC POLICY ANALYSIS |
26 New York University Environmental Law Journal 402 (2018) |
Introduction. 403 I. Development of the Role of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policymaking. 405 A. Overview of Cost-Benefit Analysis Methodology. 405 B. Development of the Role of Cost-Benefit Analysis in U.S. Regulatory Policymaking. 408 C. Development of Cost-Benefit Analysis with Respect to Environmental Policy Specifically. 410 II. The... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Brigham Daniels , Michalyn Steele , Lisa Grow Sun |
JUST ENVIRONMENTALISM |
37 Yale Law and Policy Review 1 (Fall, 2018) |
Thirty years ago, the environmental justice movement emerged as a powerful critique of traditional environmentalism, which had largely ignored the distribution of environmental harms and the ways in which those harms were concentrated on the poor and communities of color. This Article calls for a similarly groundbreaking reimagination of both... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Logan Judy |
LIBERTY AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOR ALL? AN EMPIRICAL APPROACH TO ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM |
53 Wake Forest Law Review 739 (Fall, 2018) |
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created to serve the public interest by shielding the environment from the byproducts of industrialization and development. The EPA exercises some discretion in its enforcement decisions, and this Study examines whether racial minority populations are disproportionately impacted by environmental... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Emily Bergeron |
LOCAL JUSTICE: HOW CITIES CAN PROTECT AND PROMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT |
32-WTR Natural Resources & Environment 8 (Winter, 2018) |
On June 2, 2017, in an act that the left and the right, as well as the global community, cautioned against and strongly criticized, President Donald Trump determined that the United States would no longer be party to the Paris Climate Accord (Paris Agreement). Immediately, cities across the country, from Pittsburgh to Portland, reacted. Mayors for... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Kevin Tongg |
POISONS IN OUR COMMUNITIES: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE'S ROLE IN REGULatinG HAWAI'I'S BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY |
40 University of Hawaii Law Review 155 (Summer, 2018) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 156 II. ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. 161 III. BACKGROUND: THE HISTORY OF HAWAI'I'S AGRICULTURE. 163 A. Western Contact. 163 B. The Rise of the Sugar Industry. 164 C. The Seed Industry Takes Root. 166 IV. LEGAL FRAMEWORK. 169 A. Kaua'i Ordinance 960. 169 B. Syngenta Seeds, Inc. v. Cty. of Kaua'i, No. 14-00014 BMK,... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Xochitl Rodriguez |
POVERTY'S POISON: CONTAMINATED DRINKING WATER, ITS EFFECT ON IMPOVERISHED YOUTH AND MEDICAID'S ROLE |
28 Annals of Health Law Advance Directive 235 (Fall, 2018) |
Environmental racism is structural violence promulgated by the exploitation of those without resources by those in economic and political power. The United States' legacy of racism and discrimination promotes inequalities by ensuring that minority and economically destitute populations remain stereotyped and locked in poverty. These stereotypes... |
2018 |
Yes |
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RCRA AS A TOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COMMUNITIES AND OTHERS TO COMPEL CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION |
131 Harvard Law Review 2409 (June, 2018) |
The spate of natural disasters in 2017 palpably illustrated how ill-prepared the United States is for climate change. And though all Americans have contributed to greenhouse gas emissions driving this phenomenon, they will not equitably share the effects of climate change--related disasters. Many communities--particularly low-income communities and... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Mehmet K. Konar-Steenberg |
ROOT AND BRANCH: THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE |
19 Nevada Law Journal 509 (Winter 2018) |
[The Thirteenth Amendment] abolishes slavery . root and branch. It abolishes it in the general and the particular .. Any other interpretation belittles the great amendment and allows slavery still to linger among us in some of its insufferable pretensions. C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 510 I. Environmental Justice and Traditional... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Lindsey Dillon |
THE BREATHERS OF BAYVIEW HILL: REDEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN SOUTHEAST SAN FRANCISCO |
24 Hastings Environmental Law Journal 227 (Summer, 2018) |
The bus idled on a hilly residential street overlooking the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard--an irregularly shaped expanse of largely man-made land, extending into the San Francisco Bay from the southeastern edge of the city. It was a clear day in February 2015. Staff members from the city of San Francisco's environmental, health, and public works... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Jedediah Purdy |
THE LONG ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE MOVEMENT |
44 Ecology Law Quarterly 809 (2018) |
The standpoint of environmental justice has become integral to environmental law in the last thirty years. Environmental justice criticizes mainstream environmental law and advocacy institutions on three main fronts: for paying too little attention to the distributive effects of environmental policy; for emphasizing elite and professional advocacy... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Nicky Sheats |
ACHIEVING EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COMMUNITIES THROUGH CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION POLICY |
41 William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review 377 (Winter, 2017) |
The Clean Power Plan rule is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) regulatory method of reducing the nation's carbon dioxide emissions and, by doing so, of fighting climate change. There was very little in the original Clean Power Plan proposal that addressed environmental justice (EJ) using section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act as... |
2017 |
Yes |
| David A. Dana , Deborah Tuerkheimer |
AFTER FLINT: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AS EQUAL PROTECTION |
111 Northwestern University Law Review Online 93 (January 17, 2017) |
The lead crisis in Flint, Michigan has captivated the nation, prompting calls for reform. For its part, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently reaffirmed that environmental justice is a priority. Even so, the discourse surrounding Flint's aftermath has been surprisingly unimaginative. We offer a somewhat different way of... |
2017 |
Yes |
| David A. Dana, Deborah Tuerkheimer |
AFTER FLINT: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AS EQUAL PROTECTION |
111 Northwestern University Law Review 879 (2017) |
This Essay conceptualizes the Flint water crisis as an archetypical case of underenforcement--that is, a denial of the equal protection of laws guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Viewed as such, the inadequacy of environmental regulation can be understood as a failure that extends beyond the confines of Flint; a failure that demands a... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Richard A. Marcantonio, Aaron Golub, Alex Karner, Louise Nelson Dyble |
CONFRONTING INEQUALITY IN METROPOLITAN REGIONS: REALIZING THE PROMISE OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING |
44 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1017 (August, 2017) |
Introduction. 1018 I. The Metropolitan Region and Regional Inequity. 1022 A. Early Suburbanization. 1023 B. White Flight, Subsidized Post-War Suburbanization, and Effects on Central Cities. 1024 1. Federal Transportation Policy Accelerates Suburbanization and Wreaks Urban Destruction. 1026 2. Increasing Citizen Participation and the Emergence of... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Andrea C. Armstrong |
DEATH ROW CONDITIONS THROUGH AN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE LENS |
70 Arkansas Law Review 203 (2017) |
Glenn Ford lived on death row at Louisiana State Penitentiary for twenty-nine years, three months and five days. Typically, he was confined in his cell for at least twenty-three hours of a given day, seven days a week. Glenn was convicted of the armed robbery and murder of Isadore Rozeman. After prosecutors Martin Stroud and Carey Schimpf used six... |
2017 |
Yes |