Introduction

The Environmental Justice Resource Center (EJRC) at Clark Atlanta University is a nationally known comprehensive university-based center dedicated to education, research, information dissemination, communications, and community service related to human rights, environmental and economic justice, healthy and livable communities, sustainable development, fair housing, land use planning, transportation, smart growth, and regional equity. Over the past decade (1994-2007), the EJRC has provided leadership in education, training, research, policy, publication, information dissemination, technical assistance, and community outreach.

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YEAR

1994

The Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University was formed in Atlanta, Georgia (September).

The Center published the 2nd edition of the People of Color Environmental Groups Directory that lists over 600 groups in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Canada, and Mexico.

Center staff served on the U.S. EPA National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC). Robert D. Bullard chaired the Subcommittee on Health and Research (1994-1996), Washington, DC.

The EJRC played an instrumental role in the opening of the Washington Office on Environmental Justice (WOEJ), Washington, DC.

EJRC staff led a delegation of environmental justice leaders to meet with Dr. Kenneth Olden, director of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), to begin dialogue on integrating EJ into environmental health sciences and planning a national health conference around environmental justice.

In February, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, along with six other federal agencies, held the “Symposium on Health and Health Research Needs to Ensure Environmental Justice,” Washington, DC.

On February 11, President Bill Clinton issued Executive Order 12989, “Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations.” Dr. Robert D. Bullard and other environmental justice leaders, congressional leaders, and government officials witness signing of Executive order in the Oval Office.

Working with the Commission for Racial Justice (United Church of Christ), a series of policy papers were commissioned from leading housing scholars and a roundtable was convened in Atlanta to discuss the persistent problem of housing discrimination and residential segregation in the United States. From this meeting, the Center produced a ground breaking anthology on race and housing in the United States, Residential Apartheid: The American Legacy (UCLA, 1994). The contributors tackled some hard issues such as racial segregation, housing discrimination, redlining, affordable housing, community reinvestment, and enterprise zones.

Robert D. Bullard edits Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color (Sierra Club Books). The book came out in paperback in 1996.

1995

The EJRC hosted the Interagency Working Group's (comprised of 17 federal agencies) national public hearing (and three dozen satellite down link sites) on the Environmental Justice Executive Order, "Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations. Over 500 groups attended and participated in the event. (January 20).

Robert D. Bullard received the V.O. Key Book Award from the Southern Political Science Association for Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994.

The EJRC played an instrumental role in facilitating the EPA Region IV Dioxin Public Hearing in Atlanta, GA (January 7).

The Center convened national scholars, planners, policy analysts, and activists for a national conference entitled Environmental Justice and Transportation: Building Model Partnerships Conference as part of the US Department of Transportation’s public outreach and strategic planning for Executive Order 12898. The national conference helped get “transportation equity” back on the national radar and civil rights agenda.

The EJRC hosted EPA's "Urban Revitalization and Brownfield" Hearings in Atlanta as part of the EPA National Environmental Justice Advisory Council's (NEJAC) Waste and Facility Siting Subcommittee (July 20).

The Center served as a host for the internationally acclaimed SGI Ecology and Human Life Exhibit and coordinated several environmental justice lecture series during this period (September and October).

Professor Bullard and the EJRC staff develop one of the first environmental justice frameworks for use in examining the legal and civil rights (i.e., Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) implications of environmental racism and environmental discrimination. Bullard conducted the groundbreaking research on the Citizens Against Nuclear Trash v. Louisiana Energy Services case that was successfully argued before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Licensing Board.

1996

Washington Office on Environmental Justice and EJRC facilitated environmental justice leaders participation in the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, Habitat II Summit, Istanbul, Turkey.

The Environmental Justice Resource Center and CAU-TV co-produced the 45-minute “Just Transportation” documentary video.

In July, EJRC staff led a ten-person environmental justice delegation on a visit to South Africa and met with government officials, community, labor, health, youth, and environmental justice leaders, including the representatives from the African Congress (ANC), Environmental Justice Networking Forum (EJNF), Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), and other leaders who struggled to end apartheid.

EJRC staff participated in the EPA Superfund Relocation Roundtable Meeting in Pensacola, Florida. Because of the hard work of Margaret Williams and local grassroots leaders, EPA decided to relocate the entire community of 358 African Americans and or low-income households living next to the Escambia Wood Treatment Plant in Pensacola, Florida.

1997

The EJRC hosted the Healthy and Sustainable Communities: Building Model Partnerships for the Twenty-First Century Conference that brought together more than 300 leaders from across the United States to discuss sustainability issues in communities of color. The sustainability agenda must include social and economic reform, incorporating the interests involved in activism on human rights, political representation, corporate accountability and globalization.

The link between environmental justice and transportation equity became widely known throughout the country with the release of the Center’s book, Just Transportation: Dismantling Race and Class Barriers to Mobility (New Society Publishers, 1997). The book chronicled transportation racism cases across the United States.

Robert Bullard was appointed to serve on EPA’s National Advisory Council on Policy and Technology (NACEPT), Title VI Implementation, to examine facility permitting (and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964).

Based on the Center’s research, in 1997, a three-judge panel of the NRC Licensing Board ruled that “race played a role in the facility siting” and denied the permit for the uranium enrichment plant. The Testimony of Dr. Robert D. Bullard Regarding Citizens Against Nuclear Trash Contention provided data to support the ruling in the first environmental justice lawsuit after the signing of the Executive Order 12898 and the first to use environmental justice arguments to deny a permit. This LES case is also discussed in R.D. Bullard and Glenn S. Johnson, “Grassroots Activism and Its Impact on Public Policy Decision Making,” Journal of Social Issues 56 (2000): 555-578.

1998

The EJRC and the United Church of Christ Commission on Racial Justice of the Emergency National Commission on Environmental and Economic Justice convened a public hearing on the Shintech Title V permit application planned for Convent, Louisiana and published From Plantations to Plants: Report of the Emergency National Commission on Environmental and Economic Justice, the hearing proceedings. The Commission, made up of grassroots environmental justice, civil rights, faith-based, legal, and academic centers leaders from around the nation.

The EJRC partnered with Greenpeace, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Xavier University, and more than a dozen US church Bishops and church leaders in the Council of Black Churches to participate in “Toxic Tour of Cancer Alley.” The church leaders on the tour represented over 17 million African Americans.

1999

The Center staff completed a major study, Sprawl Atlanta: Social Equity Dimensions of Uneven Growth and Development, that examined the costs and consequences of suburban sprawl on people of color.

The Center published Race Equity and Smart Growth: Why People of Color Must Speak for Themselves a paper that links suburban sprawl development to social and environmental problems.

The EJRC was instrumental in planning the National Emergency Meeting of Blacks in the United States, New Orleans, LA. African American groups came from 37 states. This and subsequent meetings laid the foundation for the formation of the National Black Environmental Justice Network (NBEJN).

2000

The Center initiated its National Equity and Smart Growth Initiative. This national initiative is designed to explore social equity issues as smart growth solutions are sought to address transportation, air quality, land use, affordable housing, gentrification, predatory lending, concentrated poverty, access to jobs, redlining, schools, parks and green space, brownfields, community economic development, and related urban concerns.

The 3rd edition of Robert D. Bullard’s Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality (Westview Press 2000) is published.

The Center published the People of Color Environmental Groups Directory 2000. (http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/poc2000.htm). The directory is the only directory that profiles the work of OVER 1,000 environmental justice nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, and Mexico.

The Center received an award from the Environmental Careers Organization (ECO) “in recognition of excellence in diversity and environmental stewardship” (October).

The Center staff edited a new book, Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta (Island Press 2000), that takes a fresh look at how sprawl is contributing to racial and economic disparities in the ten-county Atlanta metropolitan region.

The EJRC and other member organizations of the National Black Environmental Justice Network (NBEJN) hold a National Press Conference on “End Toxic Terror in Black Communities,” Washington, DC.

2001

The EJRC was a member of the Environmental justice delegation to the United Nations World Conference against Racism (WCAR) held in Durban, South Africa. Professor Bullard prepared and presented a paper commissioned by the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) “Race and Public Policy Conference” held on September 3-5, 2001, World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (WCAR), Durban, South Africa. Bullard’s paper, Confronting Global Environmental Racism in the 21st Century is published on the UNRISD website. Selected papers from the conference will be published in a forthcoming UNRISD book.

The Center provided support to environmental justice leaders who participated in the Climate Justice Summit in The Hague, Netherlands.

The EJRC staff participated in the 2001 “Celebrity Tour of Cancer Alley Louisiana.” This event sparked some celebrities, including writer Alice Walker and Congresswoman Maxine Waters, to revisit some of the impacted African American communities and work directly with the people.

A delegation from the EJRC and Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Xavier University visited with leaders in Vieques, Puerto Rico and observed the conflict first hand.

The Center staff participated in the Environmental Justice and Labor Conference held at the University of Niteroi, Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Professor Bullard was invited to contribute an article to the special issue on poverty, health, and the environment of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Our Planet Magazine “It’s Not Just, Pollution,” (September 2001). The special issue is found on the UNEP website at http://www.ourplanet.com/imgversn/122/content.html.

2002

The EJRC worked with the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Xavier University and the National Black Environmental Justice Network (NBEJN) member organizations to organize four commissions (Environmental Racism, Healthy and Sustainable Communities, Poverty Eradication, and Energy and Climate Change) at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), Rio +10 Earth Summit, Johannesburg, South Africa.

The Center staff contributed to the NBEJN report entitled Combating Environmental Racism with Sustainable Development in the US and Around the World (March 2002) and made presentations at the WSSD meetings in New York, Bali, and Johannesburg.

The EJRC served on the Executive Committee for the planning of the Second People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit convened in Washington, DC on October 23-26, 2002. The meeting was planned for 500 delegates.

The Center commissioned twenty-six Summit II Resource/Policy Papers for the Second People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, held in Washington, DC. The resource/policy papers covered a range of issues, including housing, suburban sprawl, sustainable development, land use, brownfields redevelopment, regional transportation, education and training, worker safety, and public health. An Executive Summary of Summit II Resource/Policy Papers was also published.

2003

EJRC director Robert D. Bullard collaborated with J. Agyeman and B. Evans on a book, Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World (Earthscan/MIT Press 2003), that examines global environmental justice and sustainability issues.

EJRC staff conducts workshop on Environmental Health and the African American Community at the NAACP National Convention held in Miami Beach, Florida (July 15-16, 2003).

EJRC staff participated in Environmental Justice Workshop, Founding Meeting of the Minneapolis Environmental Justice Network (Co-sponsored with the Minneapolis Urban League) Minneapolis, MN, October 11, 2003.

The EJRC was retained (pro bono) as experts and prepared a report on a Title VI discrimination case in Wake County, North Carolina” as part of a lawsuit (Jerry Frank et al. v. North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resource et al.) filed by the Land Loss Prevention Project on behalf of a group of African American residents of the small, mostly black town of Holly Springs, North Carolina.

2004

The Center began its African American Initiative on Smart Growth, Livable Communities, and Regional Equity Project. This project targets black leaders, groups, organizations, institutions, and communities to build a national solidarity movement around issues of equity and fair growth in metropolitan regions.

The Center staff edited Highway Robbery: Transportation Racism and New Routes to Equity (South End Press, 2004). This new book shows how chronic inequality in public transportation is firmly and nationally entrenched.

Urban Environment and Regional Growth, African American Forum on Race & Regionalism (AAFRR), Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (February 5-6, 2004).

Environmental Justice Workshop, Alaska Environmental Forum, Anchorage, Alaska (February 9-12, 2004).

Transportation Equity, Congressional Black Caucus Staffers Briefing, sponsored by the National Urban League, Washington, DC (February 17-18, 2004).

Professor Bullard participated in Urban Services and Minorities Symposium, Fordham University. His paper is published as “Addressing Urban Transportation Equity in the United States,” 31 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1183 (2004).

Professor Bullard testified at the “TEA-21 Reauthorization and Impact on African Americans,” Congressional Black Caucus Hearing, Washington, DC (March 11, 2004).

Professor Bullard presented at the Environmental Justice and Children of Color, Children Environmental Health Symposium, University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, MN (April 1-2, 2004).

Staff from the Center participated in a workshop “Building Just and Healthy Communities, Conference” at the Conference of Black Trade Unions (CBTU), CARAT Team, Atlanta, GA (May 27-30, 2004).

The Center staff conducted a workshop on Environmental Justice, EPA Region IV Teachers Environmental Education Training Institute, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA (June 23, 2004).

The EJRC hosted the African Americans Scholars/Authors Roundtable on Regional Equity, an activity sponsored by The Ford Foundation as part of the African American Forum on Race and Regionalism (April 8-9).

The EJRC collaborated with the African American Forum on Race and Regionalism to host the “Race, Taxes, and Metropolitan Equity Workshop” at the NAACP Annual Convention, National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA (July 14).

Professor Robert D. Bullard participated in a panel at the American Sociological Association Annual Convention, Health and Environmental Justice 25 Years after Love Canal, San Francisco, CA (August 14).

Professor Bullard presented at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Legislative Conference, Housing Braintrust: A Basic Human Right, Washington, DC Convention Center (September 8-11).

The Center staff participated in the NIEHS Town Hall Meeting on The Impact of Urban Sprawl on Health in the Inner City hosted by Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA (December 16).

Robert D. Bullard, Identities, Conflict and Cohesion Programme Paper 8: Environment and Morality: Confronting Environmental Racism in the United States, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development - UNRISD (December 29, 2004) found at http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/(httpPublications)/543B2B250E64745280256B6D005788F7?OpenDocument

2005

Robert D. Bullard and the EJRC are partners with john a. powell (Kirwan Institute at Ohio State University), Angela Glover Blackwell (PolicyLink), and Deeohn Ferris (Global Environmental Resources, Inc.) in African American Forum on Race and Regionalism (AAFRR) on the Cleveland Race and Regionalism Project, Cleveland, OH began January 2005. http://www.aafrr.org/.

Robert D. Bullard, “ Transportation Policies Leave Blacks on the Side of the Road,” The New Crisis Magazine 112 (January/February 2005): 24-25, 27, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4081/is_200501/ai_n9522085

Robert D. Bullard participated in the Brookings Institution/Harvard Civil Rights Project Transportation Equity Roundtable, Washington, DC (January 20, 2005).

Labor/Community Strategy, Bus Riders Union The Future of Transportation Conference, Los Angeles (February 19-20, 2005).

The Environmental Justice Resource Center staff participated in Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, Inc. (ANDP) Civil Rights, Environmental Justice, and Organized Labor Roundtable, Atlanta, GA (February 24, 2005).
Robert D. Bullard gave a keynote address at the Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (February 25, 2005).

Robert D. Bullard made a presentation at the George Wright Society Biennial Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites, Philadelphia, PA (March 14-15, 2005).

The Environmental Justice Resource Center staff participated in Minority Working Training/Brownfields Technical Conference, NIEHS, Los Angeles, CA (April 1-3, 2005).

Robert D. Bullard participated and made presentation at the NBEJN/DWEJ Health and Environment Conference, Dearborn, MI (April 7-8, 2005).

Robert D. Bullard gave a keynote address at the “Race and Regionalism Conference” sponsored by the Institute on Race & Poverty, Minneapolis, MN (May 5-7, 2005). http://www.kirwaninstitute.org/news/RnR2005/index.php2.htm

The Environmental Justice Resource Center staff released findings on transportation equity and MARTA at Press Conference and testified at MARTA Board hearing on service cuts and fare increase, Atlanta, GA (May 9, 2005).

Julie B. Hairston, “MARTA Board Postpones Decision on 2006 Budget,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 5, 2005.

Robert D. Bullard gave presentation and participated in book signing event at the The Advancing Regional Equity Summit sponsored by PolicyLink, Inc. and Smart Growth Network, Philadelphia, PA (May 23-25, 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, Phoenix, AZ (May 25-30, 2005). Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, CBTU 2005 Webcast, CARAT Team Environmental Justice Workshop, Phoenix, AZ (May 28, 2005).

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.

Paul Alongi. “Families Endure Long Wait for Good Water,”Greenville News (SC) June 19, 2005.

EJRC staff participated in the National Black Environmental Justice Conference, “Healthy Communities Conference and Workshops,” hosted by the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, New Orleans, LA July 1-3, 2005.

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

The EJRC staff participated in Jobs with Justice “Transportation Equity Forum,” Bowen Homes Housing Development, Atlanta, GA, August 22, 2005.

Robert D. Bullard presented testimony at Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Annual Legislative Conference, Transportation Braintrust, Washington, DC, September 14-17, 2005.

Robert D. Bullard interviews Pamela Hall for “Blacks Left Behind in Deadly Chlorine Gas Leak----Graniteville, SC.” September 23, 2005. http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/pamhallinterview.html

Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright. “Legacy of Unfairness: Why Some Americans Get Left Behind.” September 29, 2005, (articles addresses disaster response and race) http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/Exec%20Summary%20Legacy.html

MOSES Smart Growth and Regional Equity Conference, African American Forum on Race and Regionalism, Detroit, Michigan, October 3-4, 2005.

Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright, “The Real Looting: Katrina Exposes a Legacy of Discrimination and Opens the Door for 'Disaster Capitalism'” SeeingBlack.com Special Issue (October 11, 2005), http://www.seeingblack.com/2005/x101105/411_oct05.shtml.

Interview with Robert D. Bullard, “Environmental Justice Professor, Robert Bullard on How Race Affected the Federal Government’s Response to Katrina,” Democracy Now, Monday, October 24, 2005, http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/24/1414234.

Robert D. Bullard edits new EJ book from Sierra Club books: Robert D. Bullard, ed., The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human rights and the Politics of Pollution (Sierra Club Books, 2005).

Brownfields 2005 Conference, Robert D. Bullard served as a Plenary Keynote Speaker, Denver, CO, November 2-5, 2005.

Robert D. Bullard and Monique Harden. “Will Greening” the Gulf Coast after Katrina Help or Hurt Blacks?” November 10, 2005. http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/greeningafterkatrina.html

Conference of Minority Transportation Officials COMTO), Montgomery Bus Boycott 50th Anniversary Celebration, Robert D. Bullard presented on Transportation Equity Plenary, Montgomery, AL, December 5-6, 2005.

Robert D. Bullard, “More Blacks Overburdened with Dangerous Pollution: AP Study of EPA Risk Scores Confirms Two Decades of EJ Findings.” December 19, 2005. http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/BullardAPEJ.html

Robert D. Bullard, “Katrina and the Second Disaster: A Twenty-Point Plan to Destroy Black New Orleans.” December 23, 2005. http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/Bullard20PointPlan.html.

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.

Robert D. Bullard. “All Transit is Not Created Equal,” Race, Poverty, and the Environment, Vol. 12, No.1 (Winter 2005/2006): 9-12.

2006

Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright, “Cleaning Up Toxic ‘Time Bombs’ Left Behind by Katrina,” FOCUS Magazine Special Issue on Hurricane Katrina: Health Impacts in Louisiana, Joint Center for Political Studies, Vol. 34, No. 10 (January/February 2006).

Bullard, Robert D. “Assuring Environmental Justice for All.” Pp. 187-212 in Tavis Smiley’s Covenant with Black America. Los Angeles (January/February 2006), http://www.covenantwithblackamerica.com/covenant/environmental_justice/.

The EJRC conducted lecture series/forums at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) around the issues of race, smart growth, and government response to disasters. The “kick-off” lecture series/forum was held at Clark Atlanta University on February 9, 2006 as part of Black Month); other forums were held at Southern University in Baton Rouge in partnership with Dillard University and Xavier University (February 14), and Fisk University (February 20).

Gregory Dicum, “Here We Go Again: Robert Bullard Explains Why the Response to Katrina Wasn’t a Fluke,” Grist Magazine, March 14, 2006 (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.

Joe Gyan, “Project brings green to N.O. -- Joint initiative to help clean up, reach out to neighborhood,” The Advocate (Baton Rouge), March 24, 2006, http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/suburban/2516831.html. (Robert D. Bullard interviewed at Press Conference held by “A Safe Way Back Home” partners.)

“A Safe Way Back Home” project hosted by Dillard University’s Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ) and the United Steelworkers (USW) Union, New Orleans, LA March 23-26, 2006, http://www.dscej.org/asafewayhome.htm.

Bullard, Robert D, “Seven Months After Katrina: Is the Twenty-Point Plan Fact or Fiction?” March 31, 2006, http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/Bullard20ppFollowup.htm.

Victoria Harben, “Toxic Tour: Father of ‘Environmental Justice” Comes to the Old Pueblo,” Tucson Weekly, April 6, 2006 (Robert D. Bullard gives lecture at the University of Arizona and participates in “toxics tour” in Tucson, http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/currents/Content?oid=oid:80680.

National Forum for Black Public Administrators (NFBPA) Conference, African American Forum on Race and Regionalism Workshop, Fort Worth, TX, April 12, 2006.

Robert D. Bullard, “Let Them Eat Dirt: Will the ‘Mother of All Toxic Cleanups’ Be Fair to All NOLA Neighborhoods, Even When Some Contamination Predates Katrina?” April 14, 2006, http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/Let_Them_Eat_Dirt.pdf.

K. Broussard, “Research Week 2006,” TSU Times, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Spring 2006). Front page article features Dr. Robert D. Bullard’s April 2006 lecture where he addressed hundreds of students, faculty, and community leaders, http://www.tsu.edu/media/publications/TSUTIMESSPRING06.pdf.

Robert D. Bullard gave the Keynote luncheon address on April 20, “Environmental Injustice and Sustainability—New Challenges in a Post-Katrina World” at the Africana Institute of Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ, April 20–22, 2006, http://www.ramapo.edu/news/pressreleases/2006/04_12_2006.html.

Lawrence Aaron, “Environmental Racism in Ringwood, NJ,” The Record (Ringwood, NJ), April 26, 2006.

Robert D. Bullard gives keynote address at Western New York Fair Housing Conference, Rochester, NY, April 27-28, 2006, Misty Edgecomb, “Speakers at housing conference spotlight social ties to health: They decry links among toxic environment, race, income,” Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, April 29, 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.

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, May 7, 2006, http://www.emagazine.com/view/?3196&src=QSA120.

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.

S.A. Reid, “Conversation parties' aim to help blacks right wrongs,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 19, 2006.

The EJRC was part of a team of EJ experts that examined the environmental justice implications of Hurricane Katrina and disasters (natural and man-made) for the Russell Sage Foundation. The project resulted in the first report to systematically place environmental justice at the forefront in the Katrina disaster. See Manuel Pastor, Robert D. Bullard, James K. Boyce, Alice Fothergill, Rachel Morella-Frosch, and Beverly Wright, In the Wake of the Storm: Environment, Disaster and Race After Katrina (Russell Sage Foundation, May 15, 2006). http://www.russellsage.org/news/060515.528528

The EJRC organized workshop at the Conference of Black Trade Unionists, CARAT Team Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, “Post Katrina Reconstruction,” May 31, 2006, Glenn Ford and Peter Gamble, “Cover Story: In Search of ‘Liberation Economics,” The Black Commentator, Issue # 186, June 1, 2006 http://www.blackcommentator.com/186/186_cover_black_labor.html.

The EJRC served on planning committee and co-sponsor for the Poverty and Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) along with the Health Policy Institute of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the Alliance for Healthy Homes New Orleans Health Disparities Conference held in New Orleans, LA on June 12, 2006. Robert D. Bullard made presentation of his pre- and post-Katrina New Orleans Katrina environmental health disparities research. .

Robert D. Bullard presented his research “Race and Place Matters: Environmental Justice Implications of Hurricane Katrina,” at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Place Matters Labs Conference, June 28-30, 2006, Washington, DC.

Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright, “Anatomy of the Environmental and Economic Justice Movement Beyond Katrina: Grassroots Challenges to Globalization,” XVII World Congress of Sociology, RC24 Session at ISA World Congress 2006, International Sociological Association, July 23-28, 2006, Durban South Africa.

The EJRC was instrumental in outreach and support to Safeway Back Home meeting held at Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA. July 19, 2006, http://www.blacknews.com/pr/safewayhome101.html

The EJRC used Dr. Robert D. Bullard’s longstanding affiliations in Houston and Texas Southern University (TSU) to assist the DSCEJ at Dillard University in planning the Houston Katrina Survivors meeting in August 10, 2006. Bullard has written two books on Houston and served as a sociology professor at TSU (a co-sponsor of the Houston meeting) in the 1970s and 1980s. See write-up at http://www.neworleansnetwork.org/article.php?story=20060807131401211

Robert Bullard and Beverly Wright, “Deadly Waiting Game Beyond Katrina,” Royal Geographical Society RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2006 'Global social justice and environmental sustainability, 30 August - 1st September 2006 at the Royal Geographical Society with IBG, London, http://www.dur.ac.uk/j.m.painter/JNC/Jean_Hillier_Ghostships.pdf.

Robert D. Bullard. “EPA Gives New Orleans a Clean Bill of Health: Should Government Monitor or clean Up toxic Contamination?” September 7, 2006, http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/NOLACLEANHEALTH.htm.

Robert D. Bullard. “Can Americans Trust the Government to Protect Them: Lessons from the World Trade Center Ground Zero and the Aftermath of Katrina,” Common Dreams News Center, September 11, 2006,
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0911-23.htm.

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.

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://ej4all.org/home.php.

Robert D. Bullard, “Equity, Unnatural Disasters, and Race: Why Environmental Justice Matters,” An invited paper submitted to Research in Social Problems and Public Policy (RSPPP) Special Issue on Equity and the Environment (October 2, 2006).

The EJRC participated in an intense staff retreat with the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Dillard University to plan the Race, Place and the Environment After Katrina: Looking Back to Look Forward Symposium held in New Orleans, October 19-21, 2006. The EJRC was a co-sponsor of the symposium and presented at the meeting, conducted research on experts who had produced reports and solicited speakers thru a “Call for Abstracts” for the event. The EJRC took the lead with the DSCEJ in soliciting invited authors in the commissioned paper series for the Katrina Book Project.

Steve Curwood, NPR Living on Earth, “Post-Katrina Injustice” an interview with Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright, October 29, 2006, http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=06-P13-00043&segmentID=4.

Robert D. Bullard, “Human Rights and the Katrina Experience, “State of Emergency: How Government Actions Endanger the Health of African Americans,” Session # 4203, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 4-10, 2006.

Robert D. Bullard, Wrong Complexion for Protection, The Next American City Magazine, Winter, 2006/2007.

2007

Nashville News Channel 5, Robert D. Bullard interviewed on “Family traces tainted water to racial discrimination,” January 12, 2007, http://wtvf.com/Global/story.asp?S=5929034&nav=menu374_2.

January 12, 2007, Robert D. Bullard interviewed for Family Traces Tainted Water to Racial Discrimination on Nashville News Channel 5 Television. http://wtvf.com/Global/story.asp?S=5929034&nav=menu374_2

January 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

Robert D. Bullard, Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice and Regional Equity. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2007. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11185

Robert D. Bullard, Paul Mohai, Robin Saha, and Beverly Wright, Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty, 1987-2007 Executive Summary (United Church of Christ) released at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), San Francisco, CA, February 17, 2007. http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/TWARTFinal.htm

Robert D. Bullard, Paul Mohai, Robin Saha, and Beverly Wright, Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty, 1997-2007 (United Church of Christ, March 2007). http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/TWARExcSumm2007.pdf

March 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

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

Christine Dell’Amore, EcoWellness: Race and Hazardous Waste, United Press International, Consumer Health Daily, March 30, 2007. http://www.upi.com/ConsumerHealthDaily/ecowellness_race_and_hazardous_waste/20070320-050832-6558r/

Robert D. Bullard, “Transportation Apartheid: Left Behind by Transportation Apartheid Before and After Disasters Strike” Focus Magazine Vol. 35, No. 2 (April 1, 2007). http://www.jointcenter.org/index.php/publications_recent_publications/focus_magazine/2007/march_april_2007/left_behind_by_transportation_apartheid_before_and_after_disasters_strike

Robert D. Bullard, “Wasted People: Environmental Racism, a 20-Year Saga,” Black Agenda Report (April 4, 2007). http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=166&Itemid=33.

Bullard, R.D. “Americans on the ‘Fenceline’ Have No Defense: People of Color More Concentrated Near Hazardous Waste Facilities Than Twenty Years Ago” Dissident Voice (April 9, 2007). http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Apr07/Bullard09.htm

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Kaiser Health Disparities Report: A Weekly Look at Race, Ethnicity and Health, April 12, 2007. http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=44219

Reporter Janet Wilson, Robert D. Bullard is quoted in, "State has most minorities near toxic facilities,” Los Angeles Times April 12, 2007.

Cindy Skrzycki, Robert D. Bullard quoted in Environmental Justice Stalled, Reports Finds, The Washington Post (April 24, 2007). http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/23/AR2007042301839_pf.html

Cindy Skrzycki, Too Many Hazardous Wastes Sites in Minority Areas, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 28, 2007. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/313451_toxicsites29.html

Curt Guyette, Justice Delayed: New Report Looks at 20-Year Span of Environmental Racism, Metro Times (Detroit), April 25, 2007, http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=10440.

Malena Amusa, Bring Race Into the Green, Race Wire, The Colorlines Blog, April 26, 2007. http://www.racewire.org/archives/2007/04/must_read_environmental_racism.html

No Progress on Toxic Wastes & Race, ENews USA, April 26, 2007. http://enewsusa.blogspot.com/2007/04/no-progress-on-toxic-wastes-race.html

Chris Levister, Local Celebrations Highlight Risks to Neighborhoods of Color, Black Voice News, April 26, 2007. http://www.blackvoicenews.com/content/view/40741/4/.

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.

Scott Dyer, Fighting Environmental Racism, Diverse Issues in Higher Education Online. May 4, 2007.

Mike Dunne, Study: Mostly Minorities Live Near Hazardous Waste, The Advocate (Baton Rouge), May 9, 2007. http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/7347346.html?showAll=y&c=y

Ericka Souter, Poisoned Water: Negligence or Racism, People Magazine, May 14, 2007. http://www.naacpldf.org/content/pdf/HoltStory-PeopleMagazine-05-14-07.pdf.

Corinne Purtill. Link Between Race, Hazardous-Waste Sites Still Strong in Phoenix, The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ. May 21, 2007, http://www.fox11az.com/news/topstories/stories/kmsb-20070521-apjc-wastesites.8f27f312.html.

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/.

June 21, 2007, The African American Forum on Race and Regionalism completed a report for the Presidents’ Council of Cleveland. Angela Glover Blackwell, Robert D. Bullard, Deeohn Ferris, and john a. powell, Regionalism: Growing Together to Expand Opportunity to All. Cleveland, OH: The Presidents’ Council of Cleveland, June 2007.

June 22, 2007, Robert D. Bullard interviewed on "Environmental Racism" on the Environminute Show. http://www.environminute.com/webtext/070622.htm

Bullard, Robert D. The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century: Race, Power, and the Politics of Place, New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=%5EDB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0742543285&thepassedurl=%5Bthepassedurl%5D.

Cynthia Gordy, Troubled Waters, Essence Magazine, July 1, 2007. http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/Ess0707_TrbldWtrs.pdf

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

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.

July 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

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.

July 25, 2007, Dr. 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. 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.

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

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