I will discuss and sign my latest book, Environmental Health and Racial Equity: Building Environmentally Just, Sustainable, and Livable Communities, from 5:00pm – 8:00pm, Thursday November 17, 2011, Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas.This new book, my sixteenth written over the past two decades, is published by American Public Health Association and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. It examines the relationship between a community’s physical environment and health burdens through a racial equity lens. People of color and those with lower income and lower wealth have long borne an unequal burden of environmental health threats in the United States compared to the general population. The poorest of the poor within the United States have the worst health and live in the most degraded environments. One of the most important indicators of an individual’s health is one’s street address or neighborhood. Residents who live on the “wrong side of the tracks” are subjected to elevated environmental health threats. This new book captures the current state of the environmental justice movement and its work around health and racial equity over the past 25 years. While mounting grassroots mobilization efforts over the past three decades has resulted in protective new laws and regulations, people of color neighborhoods continue to serve as “dumping grounds” for polluting facilities, making them more vulnerable to all kinds of health threats and exacerbating disparities.
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4/23/2013 "Environmental Justice Soldiers on Without a King, Queen, or Major Dollars," Bentin Mock, Colorlines.
3/24/2013 "Within mainstream environmental groups, diversity is lacking," Darryl Fears, Washington Post.
3/15/2013 "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Houston Activists Say New Recycling System is Not the Way to Go," Vanessa Pina, Houston Press.
3/14/2013 "Will EPA's 'Environmental Justice' Outlast Lisa Jackson?," Brentin Mock, ColorLines.
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2/21/2013 "Father of environmental justice movement to speak at UT," Asher Price, Austin American-Statesman.
2/19/2013 "Interview - The Environmental Justice Leader: Robert Bullard," Matha van Gelder, Green American Magazine, January/February.
12/28/2012 "Urban Living Legend," Katti Gray, Diverse Issues in Higher Education.
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5/20/2010 Environmental Justice Discussed at U.S.-Brazil Meeting on Joint Action Plan to Eliminate Racial Discrimination (JAPER), EPA International Programs
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12/3/2009 EPA Drops Rule Allowing Hazardous Waste to Be Burned as Fuel (ENS)
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7/22/2009 EPA Vows to Examine Hazardous Waste on Poor Communities by Amy Littlefield, Los Angeles Times
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4/1/2008 Job Trails by Kelly Virella, The Chicago Reporter
3/10/2008 Water Contamination Suite Filed Against Dickson County, Tennessee by ENS
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1/18/2007 Study: Children living near Houston Ship Channel have greater cancer risk by Cindy Horswell, Houston Chronicle
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9/2/2005 Gulf 's Toxic Stew Adds to Crisis for Black Residents, by Mary M. Chapman, BET News Report
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10/27/2007 Steve Curwood interviews Robert D. Bullard, “Post-Katrina Injustice,” NPR, Living on Earth
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10/04/2010 Robert D. Bullard gives lecture, The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution, at the Human Rights: Reframing the Public Health Agenda Symposium, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI (16.22 min.)
5/3/2010 Interview with Robert D. Bullard for American Makeover Episode 1: Sprawlanta, a film (9:48 min.)
6/17/2009 Bullard Final, Transportation Justice, Strategy Center Capitol Hill Briefing (6:09 min)
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1/8/2008 Conversation: Dr. Robert Bullard, The Grand Rapids Community College GRCC Behavioral Science, interviewed by Dr. Michael Vargo (29:49 min.)
11/29/2007 Tour Spotlights Effects of Water Contamination on Dickson Family , Channel 5 News, Nashville, TN (2:24 min.)
7/17/2007 Bullard: Green Issue is Black and White “People You Should Know” (1:49 min.)
2/3/2007 Energy and Transportation, Lecture Series (1:49 min.)
2/3/2007 Bullard: Converging on Health, Lecture Series (0:53 min.)
10/24/2005 Environmental Justice Professor Robert BullardOn How Race Affected the Federal Government’s Response to Katrina, Amy Goodman, Democracy Now (16:30 min.)
4/4/2002 Robert Bullard Visits Dartmouth, Environmental Justice for All Lecture, Environmental Studies Program. Dartmouth University, Video Clips (7.9 MB).
