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by Laura Petersen
Robert Bullard, Ph.D.
The father of the environmental justice movement is excited. From the young people protesting in the streets for climate action and justice, to the White House elevating environmental justice as a key feature of policy discussions across the administration, people are finally paying attention.
“We are lightyears away from 1979,” says Robert Bullard, Ph.D., a distinguished professor of urban planning and environmental policy at Texas Southern University, who has spent the last four decades researching, writing and talking about environmental injustices and inequalities – or, as he likes to say: who gets what, when, where and why in terms of pollution.