The Social Movements Lasting Impact By: Hazel Fitzpatrick Throughout this series, we explored how impacts of climate change have consistently fallen hardest on low income communities and communities of color. From Hurricane Katrina to the Flint Water Crisis to Asthma Alley in the South Bronx, each case revealed the exact same pattern over and over…

More Than A Failure Of The Past By: Hazel Fitzpatrick In past posts in this series, we have looked at three different cases where environmental injustice caused lasting harm. Together, these cases raise a very important question. What would these situations have looked like if environmental justice had been taken into account from the very…

How Pollution Shapes The South Bronx By: Hazel Fitzpatrick In the previous posts in this series, we looked at Hurricane Katrina and the Flint water crisis as examples of how environmental injustice unfolds during emergencies. But environmental racism is absolutely not a thing of the past. One of the clearest examples of environmental racism is…