The Effect
This U.S. region, often home to low-income Black communities, faces frequent flooding due to raising sea levels and poor infrastructure.
What is the Gulf Coast?
This Flint, Michigan crisis became a national symbol of environmental injustice
What is the water contamination crisis?
Indigenous communities in this country's Amazon rainforest are fighting deforestation and oil drilling on their lands.
This term describes the fair treatment and involvement of all people in environmental laws and policies.
What is environmental justice?
One of the easiest ways to help reduce waste and pollution is to do this with items instead of throwing them away.
What is recycle (or reuse)?
Poor air quality in industrial area has been linked to higher rates of this chronic respiratory disease among low-income communities
What is asthma?
Communities of color are disproportionately affected by emissions from these large roadways.
What are highways or freeways?
This island nation in the Pacific is at risk of disappearing due to rising sea levels.
What is Kiribati (or Tuvalu)?
Studies show that people of color in the U.S. are exposed to this much higher level of air pollution compared to white populations.
What is 40% more?
Supporting this type of organization helps communities advocate for cleaner environments and fair policies.
What are grassroots or environmental justice organizations?
Indigenous communities often face this issue when oil pipelines are built on or near their land
What is water contamination (or threats to water sources)?
This government policy or practice refers to placing polluting industries near communities of color.
What is redlining (and its environmental legacy)?
In the U.S., this region known as "Cancer Alley" suffers from high pollution and health problems due to petrochemical plants.
What is Louisiana?
This U.S. government agency created the Office of Environmental Justice in 1992.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
Voting for leaders who support equitable climate policies is an example of participating in this process.
What is civic engagement or democracy?
Communities located near factories or waste plants experience this type of inequity where environmental hazards are concentrated in poor or minority neighborhoods.
What is environmental racism?
This global issue, caused by human greenhouse gas emissions, worsens existing inequalities worldwide.
What is climate change?
Residents of this major U.S. city faced extreme flooding during Hurricane Katrina, exposing racial disparities in disaster response.
What is New Orleans?
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were created by this international organization to promote global equity and sustainability.
What is the United Nations?
This type of energy source -- like solar or wind -- reduces pollution and dependency on fossil fuels.
What is renewable energy?
During heat waves, urban neighborhoods with fewer trees and more concrete -- often low-income or minority areas -- experience this intensified phenomenon
What is the urban heat island effect?
Inadequate enforcement of the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act in low-income areas in an example of this systemic problem.
What is unequal policy enforcement (or regulatory bias)?
In South Asia, poor communities are suffering from toxic air pollution in this Indian capital city.
What in New Delhi?
This 1987 report is considered the first national study to highlight how race was the strongest predictor of exposure to toxic waste.
What is Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States?
Amplifying the voices and experiences of marginalized communities in climate conversations ins a act of this.
What is allyship or advocacy?