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Summarizes key discussions and conclusions from the 2010 EPA collaboration with government and nongovernmental organizations at the "Strengthening Environmental Justice Research and Decision Making: A Symposium on the Science of Disproportionate Environmental Health Impacts."

Conducts a study to quantify nationwide disparities in the location of particulate matter emitting facilities by the characteristics of the surrounding residential population. The study concludes that disparities for Blacks are more pronounced than disparities on the basis of poverty status.

Adriane Alicea, explains how as a latina she is an exception to the rule. She emphasizes the findings of Green 2.0 and details the lack of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in the environmental movement.

Details a letter sent by 100 POC cultural, arts, community, and religious leaders to directors of the Big 10 conservation groups charging the organizations with a history of "racist and exclusionary practices" and failure to support the environmental justice movement.

Discussion with Professor Dorceta E. Taylor of the University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability about the history of the movement and its focus on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion historically and today. While progress has happened there is room for improvement.

Discusses Environmental Justice through the lenses of built environments, food, energy, materials/waste, and climate. The article then offers solutions to the issues outlined.

Examines the link between colonialism and environmental extraction.

Argues that lack of access to justice is not a "crisis of unmet legal needs" rather access-to-justice requires a new understanding of the problem. Professionals must work with problem-solvers in other disciplines and with members of the American public the justice system is meant to serve.

Article calls attention to the problematic hiring processes of environmental groups. They point to the problem of scarcity of Black or Hispanic people in the pool of environmental specialists. The article focuses on the whiteness of a few top Big Greens to whom civil rights and minority groups sent a letter criticizing their lack of diversity. Meanwhile grassroots movements are often led by minority groups.

Stakeholder participation in environmental decision-making have been increasingly encompassed in policy. Reed reviews the development of participatory approaches in different disciplinary and geographical contexts. Producing some evidence that stakeholder participation enhances the quality of environmental decisions due to the more comprehensive information inputs. Participation needs to focus on empowerment, equity, trust, and learning.

Considers how co-operative ways of working can support scaling-out of sustainable and just food systems. Looking at the opportunities and challenges of scaling-out in Wales and interenational case studes. Co-operative and community-based approaches prove to hold potential. Sustainable food futures need community-based participation, networks for traning, access to resources, and transformative forms of governance.

Looks at the case of community-led trade in London through interviews and ethnographic fieldwork. Three dimensions of scaling argroecology are identified as pathways to sustainable food futures: scaling out, scaling up and scaling deep.

This paper goes through the notions and concepts produced by Environmental Justice Organizations and gives definitions to concepts and slogans related to environmental inequities and sustainability. They authors examine how activists created these concepts and notions and build demands aroud them. As argued by the authors, these processes of thinking about these terms have built an activists-led and co-produced socail sustainability science which has furthered academic scholarship and environmental justice activism.

Discusses lawyers' relationship to organizing/organizers from a number of angles, based on interview that the author (a lawyer) conducted with organizers.

Presents a history of the environmental justice movement through examining key case studies and moments.

Reports on the demographic characteristics of populations within the "vulnerability zones" of the industry sector and shares the stories of some of these communities. The report finds that residents of chemical facility vulnerability zones are disproportionately Black or Latino, have higher rates of poverty, and have lower housing values, incomes, and education levels compared to the national average. The study produced important findings about fenceline areas, nearest to facilities, which experience a disproportionate danger to catastrophic release.