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The Aftermath Of Hurricane Katrina, An Unnatural Disaster, Eileen Gauna
The Aftermath Of Hurricane Katrina, An Unnatural Disaster, Eileen Gauna
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This report analyzes key policy decisions, as well as actions and inaction under health, safety, and environmental laws, that could have better protected New Orleans from the effects of Katrina before the hurricane and those that could have improved the emergency response in its wake. In the area of public health, safety, and the environment, the paper explores the implementation of wetlands law and policy, bad decisions regarding the construction and maintenance of the levee system designed to protect New Orleans, pollution prevention and clean-up laws, and energy policy. In the area of emergency response, it reviews policy decisions related …
Environmental Justice, Eileen Gauna, Catherine A. O'Neill, Clifford Rechtschaffen
Environmental Justice, Eileen Gauna, Catherine A. O'Neill, Clifford Rechtschaffen
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This white paper describes briefly the remarkable journey of community-based environmental justice advocates over the last 15 years and their impact on environmental regulation. It will also describe some of the empirical evidence of disparities and the regulatory dynamics that make these inequities an intractable problem, despite the collective efforts of grassroots leaders, environmental justice organizations, public interest law firms, and governmental officials. The paper then focuses on one important set of issues that must be tackled in order to achieve environmental justice: those involving injustice in risk regulation. We strive in this white paper, as allies in this collective …