ELJ Dinner Series: Introduction to Environmental Justice

The United States’ record of concentrating environmental hazards—dirty industrial plants, toxic landfills, destabilizing highways, and contaminated water—in low-income communities of color is long and sordid. For decades, members of these communities and environmental justice activists have tirelessly fought against this environmental racism and the practice of siting hazardous infrastructure in the most vulnerable neighborhoods.

Please join Peggy Shepard, Executive Director and Co-Founder of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, a leader in this space, to discuss the origins of the environmental justice movement and the current fight to support low-income communities of color challenging environmental injustices.

This event is sponsored by the Environmental Law Journal and the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law.