ISSUE

Environmental Inequality

Environmental policy does not just affect nature and climate; it affects human beings around the globe. There is a great need to consider the effects of environmental inequality—not everyone is equally protected from health and environmental hazards regardless of race, gender, income, or national origin.

Issue Experts

Kay Jowers

Director, Just Environments

Issue Contact

Christopher Timmins

Professor, Department of Economics and Nicholas School of the Environment

Publications

Financial Capability and Performance: Assessing Trends Among North Carolina Utilities

Inequitable Distribution of Plastic Benefits and Burdens on Economies and Public Health

Events

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News

Discrimination Has Trapped People of Color in Unhealthy Urban ‘Heat Islands’ External link

September 20, 2023

Four Decades of Work on Environmental Justice at Duke External link

September 13, 2023

The History and Water Bills in Jackson

May 10, 2023

Projects

Environmental Justice Lab

With the Human Rights Center at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, the State Policy Program has initiated three environmental justice research community-building projects.

Just Environments

Just Environments invests in collaborations between communities, students, and scholars based on research and data justice principles in order to explore solutions and practices to promote environmental justice.

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Southeast Energy Insecurity Stakeholder Initiative

The Initiative is facilitating a broad, collaborative discussion among stakeholders to explore opportunities for reducing energy insecurity in the Southeast.