“Throughout the country, urban freeways were routed through Black neighborhoods, resulting in the malicious division and forced displacement of Black neighborhoods, as well as local Black economies,” said Regan Patterson.
This three-year project, dubbed Toxic Tides, is the first systematic look at the environmental justice ramifications of sea level rise and hazardous sites along the entire coast of California.
The Switzer Network Race and Equity Discussion Group hosted a viewing and discussion of COOKED: Survival By Zip Code, a short documentary film that takes audiences from the deadly 1995 Chicago heat disaster deep into a rapidly growing...
Millions of poultry died and thousands of pigs and their waste was washed into local waterways by the millions of gallons, with negative impacts for the health of environmental justice communities and local ecosystems.
Assessing the air quality and environmental equity benefits for accelerated use of diesel particle filter and selective catalytic reduction systems on heavy-duty diesel trucks.
Candice Youngblood has received a Skadden Fellowship to advance equitable transportation planning centered on the economic resilience and health of California’s low-income communities of color through regulatory and policy advocacy and litigation with Earthjustice. She first joined Earthjustice’s Los Angeles office as a litigation assistant in 2015 and returned as a Skadden Fellow in 2021.
The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation has released a policy brief entitled Driverless Jobs: Autonomous Vehicles & A Just Transition for Black Drivers, authored by Regan Patterson. This report:
Rowan Institute and ReclaimingSTEM, two organizations led by Switzer Fellows focused on scientific leadership and community building, have merged together into a new organization: ReclaimingSTEM Institute.
