Topics in Policy Analysis (Half-Term): Environmental Justice and Policy in the U.S.

This course provides background on the grassroots environmental justice (EJ) movement in the United States. This background includes information on the organizations and coalitions that are part of the movement; the relationships between the EJ movement and the environmental movement, government and academia; and the history of the EJ movement. With that grounding, several policy issues of importance to the EJ movement are explored including cumulative impacts (multiple sources of pollution in a neighborhood), air pollution and climate change mitigation policy.