INTERVIEWS, LECTURES, TESTIMONIES, ETC.
INTERVIEWS, LECTURES, TESTIMONIES, ETC.
6/1/2008 "Robert Bullard: Environmental Justice Advocate" by Kenneth R. Fletcher for the Smithsonian magazine, June 2008
Robert Bullard of Clark Atlanta University is often called the father of the environmental justice movement for his efforts to fight toxic dumping in minority communities. He recently delivered a lecture sponsored by the Smithsonian's Anacostia Museum. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/atm-qa-bullard.html1/17/2008 Webcast of the Smithsonian 23rd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Observance Presenting Dr. Robert Bullard. Dr. Bullard spoke on the topic “Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities and Environmental Justice Twenty-Five Years after Warren County.”http://www.anacostia.si.edu/webcast.htm
11/29/2007 Channel 5 reporter interviews Robert D. Bullard for Tour Spotlights Effect Of Water Contamination On Dickson Family, NewsChannel5.com - Nashville, TN. http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=7430002.
10/25/2007 Forbes.com, “mun2 To Air in-Depth News Special: Toxic City: This is Where I Live.” Robert D. Bullard was interviewed for this documentary that’s designed to help raise environmental awareness among Latino youth, http://www.forbes.com/businesswire/feeds/businesswire/2007/10/25/businesswire20071025006505r1.html.
10/10/2007 Tracy Fernandez Rysavy, “Our Interview with Robert D. Bullard,” Co-op America Quarterly, No. 73 (Fall 2007), http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/caq/articles/Fall2007/robertbullard.cfm.
10/10/2007 Robert D. Bullard interviewed by Luz Claudio. “Standing on Principle: The Global Push for Environmental Justice,” Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 115, No. 10. http://www.ehponline.org/members/2007/115-10/spheres.html.
10/10/2007 James Wright interviews Robert D. Bullard for “U.S. House Hearing Targets Environmental Racism.” The Afro American Newspaper. http://www.afro.com/content/templates/?a=8096&z=1.
10/4/2007 Robert D. Bullard testified (http://energycommerce.house.gov/cmte_mtgs/110-ehm-hrg.100407.Bullard-Testimony.pdf) at the U.S. House of Representative Environment and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee Hearing on “Environmental Justice and the Toxics Release Inventory Reporting Program: Communities” chaired by Congressman Albert Wynn, Washington, DC. Bullard testified on the impact of weakened TRI reporting on low-income and minority communities and the implications for implementing the Environmental Justice Executive Order 12898. http://energycommerce.house.gov/cmte_mtgs/110-ehm-hrg.100407.EnvironmentalJustice.shtml.
10/3/2007 Robert D. Bullard delivers testimony at the Congressional Black Caucus Conference. “The Environmental Justice Braintrust: A Dispatch from the Congressional Black Conference,” http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/10/2/133513/553.
9/9/2007 Robert D. Bullard interviewed by Diane Roberts. “The World’s A Dirty Place When You Are Poor,” St. Petersburg Times, http://www.sptimes.com/2007/09/09/Opinion/The_world_s_a_dirty_p.shtml.
9/6/2007 Robert D. Bullard and Angel O. Torres testified at the U.S. EPA “Public Hearing on National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone,'' hearing held at EPA Region IV, Atlanta, GA. In addition to Atlanta, EPA held hearings in four additional cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Houston. See Bullard testimony at http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/RDBOzoneTest2007.htm. See Torres testimony at http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/AOTOzoneTest2007.htm.
7/25/2007 Robert D. Bullard testifies at the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health first-ever environmental justice hearing on Oversight of the EPA’s Environmental Justice Programs, Washington, DC. Click HERE for Professor Bullard’s full testimony.
7/17/2007 Bullard: Green Issue is Black and White, CNN People You Should Know,” an interview and video conducted with Robert D. Bullard. http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/17/pysk.bullard/index.html
6/22/2007 Robert D. Bullard interviewed on "Environmental Racism" on the Environminute Show. http://www.environminute.com/webtext/070622.htm
4/12/2007 Reporter Janet Wilson interview Robert D. Bullard for "State has most minorities near toxic facilities,” Los Angeles Times. http://www.topix.net/content/trb/3763023230200042558602217044523966356189.
3/26/2007 Robert D. Bullard (director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University) and Paul Mohai (professor of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Michigan) speak on Report Sees Rise in Environmental Racism, NPR News & Notes, hosted by Cheryl Corley. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9135023
3/1/2007 Conversation: “Dr. Robert Bullard, Father of Environmental Justice Movement, Discusses a Toxic Form of Racism,” interviewed by Melissa Maynard, Atlanta Magazine
1/30/2007 Robert D. Bullard interviewed for the Paula Zahn Show that examined the contamination of the Harry Holt family’s wells in Dickson, Tennessee. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/30/pzn.01.html
1/12/2007 Nashville News Channel 5, Robert D. Bullard interviewed on “Family traces tainted water to racial discrimination,” http://wtvf.com/Global/story.asp?S=5929034&nav=menu374_2.
10/29/2006 Steve Curwood, NPR Living on Earth, “Post-Katrina Injustice” an interview with Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright, http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=06-P13-00043&segmentID=4.
9/29/2006 Jeff Young, NPR Living on Earth, “EPA Watchdog,” an interview with Robert D. Bullard. http://www.livingonearth.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=06-P13-00039&segmentID=2.
6/16/2006 Rich Heffern, “From Landfills to Freeways: Movement Links Ecology, Justice,” National Catholic Reporter, June 16 2006 (Interview conducted with Robert D. Bullard for story on May 16, 2006), http://ncrcafe.org/node/171.
6/16/2006 Jeff Severns Guntzel, “Books Document Environmental Racism,” National Catholic Reporter, June 16 2006 (Interview conducted with Robert D. Bullard for story on May 16, 2006), http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2006b/061606/ss061606d.php.
5/7/2006 Jon Stein, “Dear EarthTalk: How is it that African-Americans are said to suffer the most in the U.S. from pollution and other environmental ills? E Magazine, http://www.emagazine.com/view/?3196&src=QSA120.
5/2/2006 Robert D. Bullard interviewed by Ed Gordon, National Public Radio, News & Notes with Ed Gordon, “Report Faults Post-Katrina Cleanup,” May 2, 2006, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5376448&ft=1&f=11.
3/24/2006 Joe Gyan, “Project brings green to N.O. -- Joint initiative to help clean up, reach out to neighborhood,” The Advocate (Baton Rouge), http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/suburban/2516831.html. (Robert D. Bullard interviewed at Press Conference held by “A Safe Way Back Home” partners.)
3/14/2006 Gregory Dicum, “Here We Go Again: Robert Bullard Explains Why the Response to Katrina Wasn’t a Fluke,” Grist Magazine, (interview on the center’s research around emergency response and race), found at http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/03/14/dicum/index1.html.
11/1/2005 Pat Joseph, An interview with Robert d. Bullard, "Race and Poverty Are Out of the Closet: Hurricane Katrina Exposes the Wounds of Environmental Injustice,” Sierra Magazine (November-December 2005), http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200511/interview.asp.
10/24/2005 Interview with Robert D. Bullard, “Environmental Justice Professor, Robert Bullard on How Race Affected the Federal Government’s Response to Katrina,” Democracy Now. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/24/1414234
9/23/2005 Robert D. Bullard interviews Pamela Hall for “Blacks Left Behind in Deadly Chlorine Gas Leak----Graniteville, SC.” http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/pamhallinterview.html
5/28/2005 The Environmental Justice Resource Center staff conducted a workshop on Legacy of Unfairness: Response to Emergencies Affecting African Americans and the Implications for Implementing An Effective, Just, and Equitable Homeland Security Strategy at the Conference of Black Trade Union/CARAT Team Conference (May 25-30, 2005). Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, CBTU 2005 Webcast, CARAT Team Environmental Justice Workshop, Phoenix, AZ. http://www.broadcasturban.net/webcast/cbtu2005/sat_workshop.htm
9/14/2005 Robert D. Bullard presented testimony at Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Annual Legislative Conference, Transportation Braintrust, Washington, DC.
4/1/2004 Professor Bullard presented at the Environmental Justice and Children of Color, Children Environmental Health Symposium, University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, MN.
3/11/04 Robert D. Bullard testifies at Congressional Black Caucus hearing entitled, "How are Communities of Color Impacted by the $300 billion TEA-21 Reauthorization ... in the Transportation Equity Act (TEA-21)", Washington, DC. Click HERE for full testimony.
11/27/2001 Chemical Assault on An African American Community: An Interview with Cassandra Roberts
6/19/2001 South Camden Warriors Battle Environmental Racism: An Interview with Phyllis Holmes
7/13/2000 The Life and Death of a Black Disabled Transit Activist: An Interview with Horace Kilgore
11/22/1999 Why Blacks Should be Concerned About the Environment: An Interview with Dr. Robert Bullard
7/7/1999 Environmental Justice: An Interview with Robert Bullard -by Errol Schweizer Earth First! Journal
6/25/1999 No 40 Acres and a Mule: An Interview with a Displaced Black Farmer
2/28/1999 On January 20, 2000 Dr. Robert Bullard gave a virtual lecture at Mercer University's School of Law entitled: Environmental Justice: Strategies for Creating Healthy and Sustainable Communities. Click on the following link to view his lecture. http://law.mercer.edu/elaw/rbullard.htm
3/13/1998 Testimony Prepared by Dr. Robert Bullard for the Environmenal Racism Case at Texas A&M