2007 a Banner Year for Environmental Justice Resource Center

ATLANTA, GA, December 19, 2007 – The Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University had a banner year in 2007. First, the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Sociological Practice honored the EJRC director Robert D. Bullard with the William Foote Whyte Distinguished Award for his enormous contributions he has made to the founding, developing, and growing the environmental justice movement. He was also featured on CNN’s People You Should Know. As a policy “think/act tank,” EJRC staffers testified at two historic Congressional hearings on environmental justice, an EPA hearing on ozone standards, and two Congressional Black Caucus Policy Forums on environmental justice and unnatural disasters. Bullard served as the lead author of the United Church of Christ’s Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty report, by far the most widely quoted environmental justice study in 2007. The study findings and policy recommendations were reported in more than fifty newspapers and magazines and cited at hearings on several bills making their way through the U.S. Congress. As a co-chair of the African American Forum on Race and Regionalism (AAFRR), Bullard co-authored Regionalism: Growing Together to Expand Opportunity to All, a comprehensive report on race and regional equity in Cleveland, Ohio. Center staffers also authored two books, Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice and Regional Equity (MIT Press) and The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century: Race, Power, and the Politics of Place (Rowman & Littlefield), wrote more than twenty articles and book chapters, and conducted workshops at six national conferences. The center’s work was cited or featured in more than three dozen national media outlets, including CNN, the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Essence Magazine, People Magazine, NPR, Tavis Smiley Show, and others. To view the full 2007 EJRC Activity Report, click HERE.