Environmental Reports and Articles

This is a list of a few of the better environmental articles that we found on the web. Most of these pertain directly to environmental justice and a couple explain findings that many environmentally unsafe areas are found in communities with high minority populations.

  • Why has the established environmental movement been so slow to address issues facing communities of color? Why do some activists' demands for the preservation of biodiversity apparently exclude human racial and cultural diversity? Chris Clarke examines these issues in his article titled Is the Green Movement Too White? (1993).

  • The COSSMHO: NIH Omits Latinos in Farmworker Study article looks at a $15 million, 10-year study on the health of farmers, their families, and other workers who apply agricultural pesticides that omits Hispanics even though data on farmworkers reveals that 70% of seasonal agricultural workers and 91% of migrant farmworkers are Hispanic.

  • There are individuals that claim immigrants are responsible for water shortages, for shrinking wildlife habitats, and for air pollution. John Dury looks at Immigration and the Rural Crisis in Mexico.

  • Race, Poverty & the Environment. RPE is a journal jointly published by the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation and Earth Island Institute's Urban Habitat Program. Excerpts from past issues are included here.

  • Environmental Liberty and Social Justice for All: How Advocacy Planning Can Help Combat Environmental Racism is a paper on the steps planners can take to achieve environmental justice. The paper includes some excellent examples.

  • An article by Michelle Murrain examines whether or not the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" includes the right to be healthy.

  • Impacts of Industry on the Environment by the Environmental Justice Networking Forum in South Africa details the impacts on the environment by industrial sectors.

  • Studies of differential exposure to pollution have found both race and class effects. Almost all of those studies have used air pollution or proximity to toxic waste dumps as the indicator forpollution. In Demographics of Proximity to Toxic Releases: L.A. County (1993), Szasz used newly-available data on industrial plant emissions to study these same issues.

  • In EcoPopulism: Toxic Waste & the Movement for Environmental Justice, Szasz reconstructs the growth of a powerful movement around the question of toxic waste.

  • Toxic Wastes and Race Revisited reveals that commercial toxic waste facilities are even more likely to be located in minority communities now than in 1980, despite growing national attention to the issue.

  • Woodard: LLRW Dumps Target Communities of Color.

  • Worker's Environmental Bill of Rights.

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