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The Challenge of Environmental Justice>

This article chronicles the SCCA's fight against the Department of Environmental Protection ("DEP") and the Saint Lawrence Cement Company. The DEP's myopic view of its responsibility to protect this disadvantaged community initiated a political fight to prevent the issuance of any more permits to polluting companies... [read more]

Professor Sheila Foster

It is Time for a Change

This article urges the National Environmental Justice Advisory Committee ("NEJAC") to support a change in EPA "Guidance" - a test used by the EPA to evaluate whether permits issued to polluting facilities to operate in minority communities constitute civil rights violations - from a "disparate cumulative analysis" to a protocol based on comparative public health... [read more]

Professor Jerome Balter

Bivalent Environmental Justice and the Culture of Poverty <

This paper presents an exploration of the bivalent approach to environmental justice and its relationship to the culture of poverty in three main parts. The first part illustrates the tensions and implications of the redistribution-recognition problem by examining Nancy Fraser's model for contrasting the paradigms... [read more]

Professor Robert Melchior Figueroa

Disparate Impact Regulations and Section 1983 in the Courts

In this article, Michael Churchill examines a cause of action alleging discriminatory industrial siting under Title VI and Title VIII in South Camden Citizens in Action v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, 145 F. Supp. 2d 446, 491-2 (D.C.N.J. 2001).... [read more]

Professor Michael Churchill