"The science is clear. Race is the biggest predictor of environmental hazard."
Read MoreOn February 14th, 175 environmental and social justice organizations sent a letter in support of H.R. 2021 Environmental Justice for All Act to the House Natural Resources Committee.
Read MoreCheck out the new white paper co-authored by Dr. Sacoby Wilson and Jessica Arriens and Sara Schlesinger from NWF called Environmental Justice Mapping Tools: Use and Potential in Policy Making to Address Climate Change.
Read MoreThe peer-reviewed journal, Environmental Justice, recently published its Special Issue on Black Lives Matter Part 1. Follow this link to read the articles: https://home.liebertpub.com/publications/environmental-justice/259
Read MoreThe article emphasizes the need for more local air quality monitoring, explaining “…no one publicly tracks emissions near warehouses: not the EPA, not local governments and not Amazon itself. Environmental regulators monitor air quality around the country, but their sensors are too spread out.”
Read MoreDr. Sacoby Wilson connects the Amazon expansion to environmental racism, saying, “They [communities that host delivery facilities] get more traffic, air pollution, traffic jams, and pedestrian safety problems, but they don’t receive their fair share of the benefits that accrue from having the retail nearby. You can treat this pattern as a form of environmental racism.”
Read MoreCheck out “The Promise of Community-Driven Science” in the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Winter 2022 issue in which Dr. Sacoby Wilson speaks to the prevalence of extractive science and the marginalization of community science efforts and advocates in academia.
Read MoreCEEJH has received a gift from the Besos Earth Fund to expand community-based air quality monitoring efforts in the Mid-Atlantic region with a focus on traffic pollution.
Read MoreOn August 2, the EPA announced the selections of charter members to their Science Advisory Board. Dr. Sacoby Wilson was selected as a SAB member with a dual appointment to the Environmental Justice Science Committee.
Read MoreOn September 12, the NC State Citizen Science Campus hosted the 2020 Citizen Science & Higher Education Symposium. Learn more about this event and this particular session: https://blog.scistarter.org/2020/10/n...
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