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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…

Another Contaminated Water Story By: Hazel Fitzpatrick In the last post of this series, we explored how Hurricane Katrina revealed the unequal impacts of disaster response. Katrina showed what happens when communities of color are placed at greater risk and then forgotten in the moment they most need help. The Flint water crisis is another…

Before, During, and After the Disaster By: Hazel Fitzpatrick In the previous post, we introduced the Environmental Justice movement and how low income communities and communities of color have historically been placed closest to environmental hazards. While we often see this injustice through pollution over time, natural disasters also often provide an example of environmental…