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Recent Environmental Justice Projects

Posted by Avery Maris Maloto on June 22, 2021

The following list was provided by Warren Lavey and includes a detailed description about recent Environmental Justice projects:

  • Project for: Stop EtO (community environmental organization in Lake County, Illinois)
    • Environmental injustice: air pollution from industrial activities affecting low-income, minority communities
    • Status: ongoing
    • Students involved: 4 (law and medicine)
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  • Project for: Forest Preserve District of Champaign County
    • Environmental injustice: lower access to and use of parks and other resources by low-income, minority communities
    • Status: ongoing
    • Students involved: 1 (undergrad in integrative biology)
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  • Project for: Asociación Petón do Lobo (community environmental organization in Spain)
    • Environmental injustice: waste from taconite mining operations threatening small, low-income farmers; national and regional governments denied residents access to environmental information and participation in licensing proceedings
    • Status: ongoing
    • Students involved: 7 (law)
  • Project for: Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (community environmental organization in Chicago)
    • Environmental injustice: proposed expansion of a truck terminal near an elementary school for low-income, minority students
    • Status: completed (buffer with trees planted)
    • Students involved: 2 (undergrads in public health and computer science)
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  • Project for: Friends of Riverfront Park (community organization in Peoria)
    • Environmental injustice: proposed conversion to develop luxury apartments of 20+ acres of a city park that was financed by the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund and borders on affordable housing
    • Status: completed (park conserved)
    • Students involved: 2 (law)
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  • Project for: NAACP of Sandbranch, Texas
    • Environmental injustice: lack of adequate water and sewage infrastructure for a town of low-income, minority residents
    • Status: completed (state and federal funding obtained)
    • Students involved: 2 (law)
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  • Project for: Gullah/Geechee Nation (African-American group in coastal South Carolina and Georgia)
    • Environmental injustice: proposed highways disrupting cultural heritage sites for low-income, minority residents
    • Status: completed (highway construction not approved)
    • Students involved: 2 (law)