This article examines two community–academic research partnerships addressing lead contamination in urban environments, showing how community-based participatory research reframes lead poisoning as an environmental justice issue and reshapes research agendas, policy debates, and community organizing.
Students research and produce case studies of environmental injustice across California.
This paper examines how a landmark citizen lawsuit against Formosa Plastics in Seadrift, Texas generated a $20 million fund for ecological restoration and sustainable fisheries, highlighting the complex, multi-stage legal and advocacy work required to pursue environmental justice and a just transition in late industrial contexts.
A collaborative project with UC Irvine students and Orange County Environmental Justice that produced two award-winning videos for the U.S. EPA Environmental Justice Video Challenge.
The Environmental Governance Global Record is a collaborative archive and research infrastructure that documents patterns and variations in environmental injustice and environmental governance across different sites and cases.
The Formosa Plastics Global Archive documents environmental conflicts, activist data, and research on the global petrochemical operations of the Formosa Plastics Group.