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WR153: Creating Environmental Justice

What is Environmental Justice?

“Environmental justice is really concerned with documenting and understanding the disproportionate and unequal environmental burdens that certain communities face,” Dr. Dorceta Taylor, Professor of Environmental Justice at the Yale School of the Environment, says. “In the United States and around the world, low-income, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian people tend to be living in spaces where environmental hazards, extreme natural and human-made disasters, and environmental degradation occur more rampantly.”

(From Yale Sustainability)Connecting health, pollution and fairness – that's environmental justice |  American Heart Association

Creating Environmental Justice

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