Environmental Justice

The story of Diamond's 30-year ordeal, a minority neighborhood, faced with a polluting industry in its midst, fights back. The author also talks also to the residents of a nearby white neighborhood, many of whom work for Shell, and to environmental activists and Shell officials.

Describes the politics of garbage in Chicago and how garbage affects residents in vulnerable communities and poses health risks to those who dispose of it.

Presents an inspiring and illuminating picture of the environmental justice movement in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

This book focuses on how Asian and Latin@ immigrant activists for environmental justice in Los Angeles navigate sickness and premature death and, most importantly, their political push-back against it.

Examines the connections among residential segregation, zoning, and exposure to environmental hazards.

The MacArthur grant-winning environmental justice activist's riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for America's most vulnerable A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020