Center for Environmental Justice
Publications
2009
National Policy Analysis: Does President Obama Have a Mandate For His Pledge to Cut U.S. Carbon Emissions?
by David A. Ridenour
New Visions Commentary: Obama, the Pickens Plan and the Potential Fire Next Time, by Deneen Borelli
2008
Press Release: New Poll Finds that Majority of African-Americans Oppose Public Lands Bill
New Visions Commentary: Elites Denying Affordable Energy to Average Americans, by Deneen Borelli
Press Release: Black Activist on End of Congressional Ban on Oil Exploration: ‘Energy Freedom Day’ Great for Families and for Energy Independence
New Visions Commentary: Property Rights: It's Not Just for the Rich, by Reece Epstein
New Visions Commentary: Congressional Liberals Having Their Cake and Eating It, Too, by Kevin Martin
National Policy Analysis: Ethanol: A Burden on the Poor, by David Ridenour
Press Release: Overwhelming Majority of Americans Oppose Lieberman-Warner Global Warming Proposal, New Poll Suggests
Press Release: EPA Sludge Tests a "Modern-Day Tuskegee Experiment"; Children in Poor Black Neighborhoods Potentially Imperiled by EPA Studies
New Visions Commentary: Global Warming Policies Cool Minority Economic Engines, by Deneen Borelli
Press Release: Americans Cool to Global Warming Action, New Poll Finds
New Visions Commentary: Politicians Prescribe Aspirin to Treat Economy They Poison, by Roy Innis
Blog: Project 21 Helps Expose Hypocrisy of Environmental Elite in the Third World
Blog: Project 21's Parks on Environmental Alarmism
2007
National Policy Analysis: Thanks to Congress, Ethanol and Biofuel Mandates Cause Food Prices to Soar, by Dana Joel Gattuso
New Visions Commentary: Congressional Black Caucus Shortchanging Poor and Minority Energy Consumers, by Roy Innis
New Visions Commentary: Is Congress "Smarter Than a Fifth Grader"? by John Meredith
New Visions Commentary: Live Green or Simply Live? by Stella Dulanya
New Visions Commentary: Anti-DDT Policies Are Deadly for Africa, by Thompson Ayodele and Adegoke Anthony
New Visions Commentary: CAFE Tab Too Expensive for America, by Deneen Borelli
New Visions Commentary: Car-Crazy Congress Set to Break the American Auto Industry, by Kevin Martin
New Visions Commentary: House-Passed "Price Gouging" Bill No Relief to Consumers, by Deneen Borelli
2006
Press Release: Senator Allen's National Heritage Area Threatens to Disproportionately Harm Minorities
2005
Blog: Containing Sprawl: The True Cost
2004
Project
21 Press Release: Black
Activists to Expose Environmental Policies that Harm Minority
Advancement at National Press Club Earth Day Press Conference;
Policies That Inadvertently Encourage Segregated Housing Among
Those Cited as in Need of Reform
New
Visions Commentary:
Elitist "Environmental Justice" Bad News for Minorities,
by David Almasi
New
Visions Commentary:
Elitist Environmentalists Say "No Thanks" to New Jobs,
by Kevin Martin
Press Release: Black
Activists Condemn Elitist "Earth Day"
Ten Second Response: Superfund:
Polluters Already Pay, by Amy Ridenour
2003
National Policy Analysis: Hispanic
Economic Progress Endangered by McCain-Lieberman, by David Almasi
Ten
Second Response:
Hispanics Would Be Hard-Hit by McCain-Lieberman Global Warming
Proposal, by Amy Ridenour
Press
Release:
Black Group Opposes Civil
Rights Commission Environmental Justice Report
National
Policy Analysis:
Civil Rights Report Wrong on Environmental Justice Priorities,
by David Almasi
National
Policy Analysis:
Tnkering With Energy is Playing With Fire: Cap and Trade Schemes
are Regressive, Placing Burdens on Low-Income Communities, by Bonner
Cohen
Press Release: Black
Group Praises Bush for June 23 Demand that European Leaders Step
Up International Fight Against Hunger; Renews Call for End to
European Ban on Genetically Modified Foods
Ten Second Response: Feed
the World: Bush Challenges European Ban on Genetically-Modified
Foods, by Amy Ridenour
Press Release:
Black Conservative Group Urges Bush to Press European Leaders
to Join Fight Against Hunger in Africa; Calls for End to European
Ban on Genetically Modified Food
2002
Study
Released: Smart Growth
and Its Effects on Housing Markets: The New Segregation (full
text)
Press
Release: New Study
Says Minorities and Poor Harmed by Anti-Sprawl Policies
Press
Release: Environmental
Justice Study to Be Released
National
Policy Analysis:
Kyoto: Good Reviews for Bad Rubbish, by Amy Ridenour
National
Policy Analysis:
Fuel Efficiency Regulations Save Gas But Cost Lives and Money,
by Mary Katherine Ascik
National Policy Analysis:
EPA's Regulatory Turnaround an Example
of Compassionate Conservatism in Action, by Syd Gernstein
New
Visions Commentary:
Historic Preservation Saves Buildings But Robs Residents of Goods
and Services, by Syd Gernstein
Ten
Second Response:
TSR Extra - Recess Notes: Answers to Questions on Common Environmental
Questions
Ten Second Response:
Federal Government Raises Price of New
Homes to Protect the Lumber Industry it Has Nearly Killed,
by Tom Randall
New Visions Commentary: LCV Environmental Scorecard Ratings
Shortchange Urban Blacks, by Mike Green
Project 21 Press Release: U.S. Environmental Policy Unfriendly
to Minorities; African-American Network Wants Earth Day Reassessment
of Regulations
National Policy Analysis:
Giving With One Hand, Taking Away with
the Other: Competing Government Policies Both Promote and Deny
Homeownership Opportunities for Minorities, by David Almasi
New Visions Commentary: Living With One Hand, Taking
Away with the Other: Competing Government Policies Both Promote
and Deny Homeownership Opportunities for Minorities, by David
Almasi
Relief Report newsletter:
Anti-Sprawl Policies Undermine Programs
to Help Minorities and the Poor
National Policy Analysis:
State Regulators Destroy Los Angeles's
Fellowship With the Ringmakers, by Syd Gernstein
National Policy Analysis:
On Environmental Issues, Conservative Groups
and Labor Unions are Natural Born Allies, by Tom Randall
National Policy Analysis:
Global Warming: Administration Could Snatch
Defeat From the Jaws of Victory, by Tom Randall
National Policy Analysis:
Who Will Monitor the Monitor? Commission
on Civil Rights Chairman's Uncivil Manner Screams for Scrutiny,
by David Almasi
New Visions Commentary: Who Will Monitor the Monitor?
Commission on Civil Rights Chairman's Uncivil Manner Screams
for Scrutiny, by David Almasi
New Visions Commentary: A Different Standard for the
Powerful Means No Environmental Justice From Washington, by
Syd Gernstein
National Policy Analysis:
A Different Standard for the Powerful Means
No Environmental Justice From Washington, by Syd Gernstein
National Policy Analysis:
The Greatest Unfounded Health Scares of
Recent Times, Part I: DDT, by Adam J. Lieberman (1967-1997)
and Simona C. Kwon, M.P.H.
National Policy Analysis:
Brownfields Revitalization Cuts Urban Blight,
Suburban Sprawl, by Syd Gernstein
New Visions Commentary: Brownfields Revitalization
Cuts Urban Blight, Suburban Sprawl, by Syd Gernstein
National Policy Analysis:
Civil Rights Commission Should Address
the Economic Impact of Environmental Justice Policies, by
David Almasi
New Visions Commentary: Civil Rights Commission Needs to
Assess the Economic Impact of Environmental Justice Policies,
by David Almasi
2001
Press Release: Congress
Passes Environmental Legislation to Benefit Blighted Inner-City
Communities
National Policy Analysis:
Patience or Panic? The EPA Seems to Let
Demographics Decide, by Syd Gernstein
National Policy Analysis:
Global Warming Policies Could Unfairly
Harm Minorities and the Poor, by Rep. John Peterson (R-PA)
New Visions Commentary: Global Warming Policies Could
Unfairly Harm Minorities and the Poor, by U.S. Congressman
John Peterson (R-PA)
New Visions Commentary: New
Gas May Force Blacks to Run on Empty, by Syd Gernstein
New Visions Commentary: Global
Warming: Hot Air That's Going to Make Me Colder and Poorer,
by Edmund Peterson
New Visions Commentary: Choking
Black Prosperity, by Syd Gernstein
2000
New Visions Commentary: Economic
Opportunities and Social Issues Trump Environment as Top Concern
for Poor and Minorities, by John Carlisle
Press Release: United
Nations Meeting in The Hague Will See Demise of Kyoto Global
Warming Treaty
New Visions Commentary: Global
Warming Rules Make This Black Man Hot Under the Collar,
by John Meredith
National Policy Analysis:
Costly
Economics and Faulty Science Kill the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty,
by John Carlisle
Press Release: Africa
Cries Out for Genetically-Modified Foods
Press Release: Global
Warming Laws Could Destroy Black Economic Gains
Press Release: Economic
Opportunity and Social Issues Trump Environment as Top Concerns
for Poor and Minorities
National Policy Analysis: Suburban
Snob Politics Fuels "Smart Growth" Land-Use Movement,
by John Carlisle
Press Release: Congressman
Nick Smith to Speak at Press Conference Praising Biotechnology
and Criticizing Unsound Science of Biotechnology Critics
New Visions Commentary: The
Time is Now for a New Environmental Justice Policy,
by Michael Centrone
National Policy Analysis: Economic
Opportunity and Social Issues Trump Environment as Top Concerns
for Poor and Minorities, by John Carlisle
National Policy Analysis: Treaty
to Combat Global Warming Threat Would Hurt Americans' Standard
of Living, by John Carlisle
National Policy Analysis: The
Time for Superfund Reform is Now, by Michael Centrone
National Policy Analysis: Choking
Black Prosperity, by Syd Gernstein
National Policy Analysis: How the EPA Became a Public Health
Risk, by Michael Centrone
National Policy Analysis: Clean
Air Regulations Harmful to Minority Economic Gains,
by Syd Gernstein
New Visions Commentary: Bio-Foods
Can Improve Nutrition in America, Cut Starvation and Disease
in Africa, by John Meredith
New Visions Commentary: Bill
Clinton Makes Blacks Pay More at the Pump, by Stuart
Pigler
National Policy Analysis: Gasoline
Additives Fuel High Prices and Environmental Problems,
by Syd Gernstein
New Visions Commentary: Needed:
Environmental Justice for Minorities, by John Carlisle
National Policy Analysis: Bio-Foods
Can Improve Nutrition in America, Cut Starvation and Disease
in Africa, by John Meredith
National Policy Analysis: Bill
Clinton Makes Blacks Pay More at the Pump, by Stuart
Pigler
National Policy Analysis:
The
Time is Now for a New Environmental Justice Policy,
by Michael Centrone
National Policy Analysis: Biotechnology:
Putting an End to World Hunger, by Michael Centrone
National Policy Analysis: Needed:
Environmental Justice for Minorities, by John Carlisle
New Visions Commentary: Government
Doesn't Understand True Environmental Justice, by John
Meredith
Press Release: Earth
Day No Celebration for Black Americans: African-American Network
Seeks Environmental Justice from Overregulation, by
John Meredith and Kenneth Flowe
New Visions Commentary: When
Regulations Border on Racism, by John Carlisle
1999
National Policy Analysis: Tastes Great, Less Filling: New Bioengineered
Foods Bring Benefits to Consumers, by Amy Ridenour
National Policy Analysis:
No Pleasing Environmentalists, by John Carlisle
Press Release: Anti-Biotechnology
Policies Backed by Some Seattle Protesters Could Cause Preventable
Starvation in the Developing World
Press Release: Activists
Attack Bio-Engineered Food Despite Benefits to the Poor and the
Sick: Environmental Groups Join in Attack on Technology that
Aids the Environment
Press Release: Earth
Day No Holiday for Black Americans
1998
National Policy Analysis: What
Earth Day Means to Minority Citizens, by Edmund Peterson
1997
Press Release: President
Clinton Violates His Own Executive Order on "Environmental Justice"
National Policy Analysis: President's
Interpretation of "Environmental Justice" Jeopardizes Minority
Health and Well-Being, by David Ridenour
Press Release: Glickman
"Food Summit" Yet Another Rout of GOP as Regulatory Reform Reaps
Benefits for Poor, by Amy Ridenour
Talking Points: EPA's New Clean
Air Standards Could Place Children at Greater Risk
1996
Press Release: Environmental
Group Attacked for Backing Anti-Minority Foreign Policies: African-American
Group Calls on Environmentalists to Stop Promoting Third-World
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