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Environmental Justice for Overburdened Communities: A View from New Jersey
Last year, the New Jersey state legislature passed a landmark environmental justice bill that requ...
Aquaculture Diversity On The Chesapeake Bay
By: Sharon Franklin, Chief of Operations In a recent article in the Chesapeake Quarterly “Diversit...
Climate Change and Toxic Exposure
By: Julia Weil, Community Organizing Intern Climate change alters essentially everything in our envi...
Environmental Justice for Inmates
By: Ruth Rodriguez, Communications Intern Nearly 600 federal and state prisons are within 3 miles of...
Covid-19 is an Environment Justice Issue
By: Leia Ku Cheng Yee, Communications and Development Intern As we enter the month of March, we mark...
Communication for the Community
By: Judith Eppele, Community Organizing Intern Growing up in a household with divorced parents, I qu...
Social Determinants Meet Environmental Health
By: Evelyn Zavala, Science Intern I was drawn to working with CHEJ because of their work with commun...
The Intersection Between Tribal Sovereignty and Environmental Justice
By: Kristen Millstein, Communications Intern In the summer of 2016, I traveled to the Pine Ridge Res...
A new study finds air pollution from fossil fuels causes 20% of premature deaths worldwide
By Mihir Vohra, Research Associate In the fight to end our reliance on fossil fuels, most of the foc...
Justice Through GIS
By: Benjamin Silver, Science and Technology Intern I never imagined that a five-gigabyte software on...
Inequity in the Distribution of Covid-19 Vaccine
Everyone’s talking about the Covid-19 vaccine these days – who gets it first; how will it be dis...
A Movement for Community-Oriented Science
By: Leija Helling, Organizing Intern Today marks the inauguration of Joe Biden as our president and ...
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