"The environmental justice movement brings together science, data, research and facts. But they are not enough to produce transformative change. When people talk about trying to achieve environmental, economic, climate and racial justice, they are referring to marrying all of those data with action, for example, through lawsuits or pressure to change public policies."
Robert Bullard established environmental justice as a field in the 1990s, grounded in the principle that all people deserve equal protection under environmental, health, housing, employment, energy, transportation and civil-rights laws. His late-1970s research in Houston revealed that landfill sites were disproportionately located in predominantly Black neighborhoods, findings that supported lawsuits and policy reforms. Bullard authored 18 books, including the influential Dumping in Dixie, documenting Black communities' resistance to pollution. He co-founded the annual HBCU Climate Change Conference and directs the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at Texas Southern University. His approach combines scientific research with community-based participatory action to achieve environmental, economic, climate and racial justice through legal and policy mechanisms.
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