Environmental Justice Education and Community Outreach

 

Articles, Reports, and Media Coverage of the EJRC’s Work

2007

Charles Dervarics, “HBCU Experts Call on Congress to Assist Minority Communities Near Toxic Wastes Sites,” Diverse Issues in Higher Education, August 2, 2007. http://www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/printer_8963.shtml

James Wright, “Environmental Racism Takes Senate Stage,” The Afro American, August 1, 2007. http://www.afro.com/content/templates/?a=7717&z=12

Robert D. Bullard delivered a letter to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health Oversight of the EPA’s Environmental Justice Programs hearing, chaired by Senator Clinton, July 25, 2007. The letter was signed by more than one hundred environmental justice networks, civil rights and human rights, faith based, and health allies, representing millions of Americans from New York to Alaska, endorsing the 2007 United Church of Christ Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty Report. To view the letter click HERE.

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, July 25, 2007. Click HERE for Professor Bullard’s full testimony.

“Bullard: Green Issue is Black and White, CNN People You Should Know,” an interview and video conducted with Robert D. Bullard, July 17, 2007, http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/17/pysk.bullard/index.html

National Black Environmental Justice Network and Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice (DWEJ) “toxic tour” of Detroit. See Robert D. Bullard, Groups Seek NAACP Help in “Burying” Toxic Racism, OpEd News, July 14, 2007. http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_robert_b_070713_groups_seek_naacp_he.htm

Robert D. Bullard. “Dismantling Toxic Racism,” in the NAACP Special Environmental Justice Issues of The Crisis Magazine 114 (July 2007).

Robert D. Bullard organized Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty: 1987-2007 Workshop and the EJ Networks Press Briefing at the United States Social Forum (USSF), Atlanta, GA, June 28-29, 2007.

Robert D. Bullard. “25th Anniversary of Warren County PCB Landfill Protests: Communities of Color Still on Frontline of Toxic Assaults,” Dissident Voice, May 29, 2007. http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/25th-anniversary-of-the-warren-county-pcb-landfill-protests/.

Rosanne Skirble, “Leaders of African American, Hispanic, and Religious Groups Take Global Warming to Capitol Hill,” Voice of America News, May 3, 2007. http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2007-05/2007-05-03-voa66.cfm?CFID=180964166&CFTOKEN=43280270.

March 2007, Conversation: “Dr. Robert Bullard, Father of Environmental Justice Movement, Discusses a Toxic Form of Racism,” interviewed by Melissa Maynard, Atlanta Magazine.

Robert D. Bullard, Paul Mohai, Robin Saha, Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty, 1987: Grassroots Struggles to Dismantle Environmental Racism in the United States. Cleveland, OH: United Church of Christ Justice & Witness Ministries, March 2007. Click HERE to view press update on the report.

2006

The EJRC was a partner in organizing the National Environmental Justice for All Tour (Southern Region of the United States). The southern Region Tour Stops included Port Arthur, TX, Mossville, LA, New Orleans, LA, Anniston, AL, Dickson/Nashville, TN, Knoxville, TN, Louisville, KY, and Washington, DC. The EJRC also assisted in organizing the EJ Rally in Dickson, TN, Covenant with Black America Town Hall Meeting at Fisk University, and Wrap-up Rally in Washington, DC, September 28, 2006, http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060927/MTCN0201/309270027/1348/COUNTY.

Misty Edgecomb, “Speakers at Housing Conference Spotlight Social Ties to Health: They Decry Links Among Toxic Environment, Race, and Income,” The Democrat & Chronicle (Rochester, NY), April 29, 2006, http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060429/NEWS01/604290335/-1/ARCHIVE3.

Victoria Harben, “Toxic Tour: Father of ‘Environmental Justice” Comes to the Old Pueblo,” Tucson Weekly, April 6, 2006, http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/currents/Content?oid=oid:80680.

S.A. Reid, “Conservation parties' aim to help blacks right wrongs,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 19, 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.

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.

Jeff Young, NPR Living on Earth, “EPA Watchdog,” an interview with Robert D. Bullard, September 29, 2006, http://www.livingonearth.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=06-P13-00039&segmentID=2.

2005

Robert D. Bullard quoted in David Pace, “AP: More Blacks Live with Pollution,” Associated Press, December 14, 2005, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/12/13/national/a093744S97.DTL&type=health.

Robert D. Bullard, “EPA’s Draft Environmental Justice Strategic Plan----A ‘Giant Step Backward.’” July 15, 2005. http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/BullardDraftEJStrat.html

Robert Bullard Speaks at UN World Environment Day Event Saturday, San Francisco, (June 3, 2005). “Bianca Jagger, Mayor Gavin Newsom (San Francisco), Robert Bullard Speaks at UN World Environment Day Event Saturday, June 4” Forbes.com (June 3, 2005).

Jane Kay. “Pollution, Poverty Link on Agenda Talk, Rally to Focus on Inner-city Minorities' Plight” San Francisco Chronicle (June 4, 2005) found at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/04/BAG6ED3LA31.DTL.