Dr. Wilson and CEEJH team members worked with the Socially Responsible Agriculture Project (SRAP), Protecting Our Indian River, and the communities of Sussex County, Delaware to protest the establishment of poultry processing plant in Millsboro, DE--an environmental justice community facing the environmental hazards of a coal-fired power plant, two superfund sites, a concrete factory, and an existing poultry processing plant.

In fall 2018, the National Science Foundation awarded 1.5 million dollars to a team of multidisciplinary investigators from Agriculture, Extension, Engineering, and Public Health from the University of Maryland including Dr. Sacoby Wilson to study stormwater management in Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD.

In 2012, Dr. Wilson began engaging residents in Curtis, Bay, Maryland, a South Baltimore neighborhood already overburdened by industrial hazards and port-related activities, in response to a plan for building Energy Answers, the largest trash incinerator in the country.