The Call for Environmental Justice Professor Richard Schulterbrandt Gragg, Ph.D. Florida A&M University School of the Environment Tallahassee, Florida 32307 Environmental Ethics Conceptual Framework “Mutual dignity and respect among humans will lead us to our proper understanding of our role and responsibility within and to the environment where we live, work, and play. “ Richard Schulterbrandt Gragg III Interdisciplinary Teaching About Earth for Sustainable Future Engaging Environmental Justice in Geoscience Courses Workshop Sarah K. Fortner, Richard Schulterbrandt Gragg, Rob Rohbaugh and Cathy Manduca Monday, December 10th, 4:00-6:00pm, Georgetown Room, Marriott Marquis, Georgetown Room 2018 American Geophysical Union Annual, Washington DC

https://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice/learn-about-environmental-justice Environmental justice (EJ) is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations and policies. Fair treatment means no group of people should bear a disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, governmental and commercial operations or policies. Meaningful involvement means: People have an opportunity to participate in decisions about activities that may affect their environment and/or health; The public's contribution can influence the regulatory agency's decision; Community concerns will be considered in the decision making process; and Decision makers will seek out and facilitate the involvement of those potentially affected.

Environmental Injustice: Collectively Exposed Uniquely Challenged Disparate Co-Locations and Cumulative Impacts Environmental Stressors People of Color and/or Low Wealth Populations Equitable Development Test Beds Ground Zero Economic, Social and Environmental Sustainability Solutions Collaborative Replicable Scalable

Mapping the Cancer Corridor Along Louisiana’s Gulf Coast “Cancer Alley” does not itself appear on maps.  But this eighty-five mile stretch of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, into which are packed some one hundred and fifty factories of petroleum refining or chemical production, merits the name since its notorious wastes have grown so large to define the local landscape to merit the name–the amount of toxic and hazardous wastes that they regularly release has overwhelmed the landscape.  The simple austere presence of names of chemical compounds, no doubt sized in an elegant Times New Roman in a font-size that corresponds to their relative production, suggests an imposition of meaning inscribed on the map, stripped of any actual toponymy, save the ghostly half-tones naming the corporations who have remade the landscape the residence of chemical production. Mapping the Cancer Corridor Along Louisiana’s Gulf Coast

Environmental Injustice Air Quality [Toxic Tensions in the Heart of ‘Cancer of Alley’] https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/20/health/louisiana-toxic-town/index.html Water Quality [The Effects of Flint’s Lead Poisoning Disaster] https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/04/us/flint-water-crisis-fast-facts/index.htmlL Landfills [Here is Where BP is Dumping Its Oil Spill Waste] https://www.colorlines.com/content/heres-where-bp-dumping-its-oil-spill-waste America’s Toxic Schools https://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=18-P13-00006&segmentID=1

Public Policy Challenges and Opportunities Health disparities, socioeconomic inequalities cumulatively affect individual and community vulnerability, risk and resiliency. Intersectorial partnership models generate meaningful research, and equitable development policies to achieve environmental justice. Environmental justice research and public policy must embody a bias for action. Interagency Environmental Justice Working Group National Environmental Justice Council National Environmental Justce Youth Advisory Board Public Policy Challenges and Opportunities

Environmental Justice Pedagogy Integrative across disciplines across sectors across ways of knowing across geographic scales across temporal scales Place-based conceptual and operational framework Values-based focus on the human condition Contextual ― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation “In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be... This is the inter-related structure of reality.”

‘Crossing scales & levels to make connections is central to community-based participatory action science’ Sarah K. Fortner

Scale and Cross Scale Challenges and Responses Ignorance Mismatch Plurality Scale and Cross Scale Challenges and Responses RESPONSES Institutional Interplay Co-Management Boundary or Bridging Organizations

Case Studies and InTeGrate Resources Engaging Environmental Justice in Geoscience Courses Lead in the Environment Food as the Foundation for Healthy Communities EPA's Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool