Governing for environmental justice

Whether efficient public transit, climate change, or air and water pollution, marginalized communities are regularly denied access to healthy environments. Differences in power and political voice create differential impacts of our changing environment—natural and built—on these communities, compromising access to basic necessities like clean water and breathable air. Legislation to redress these differential impacts requires policymakers to work hand in glove with the communities they represent.

• Wayne County
• policy making
• Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence
• environmental justice
• climate
• environment
• social justice
• Rashida Tlaib
• Stephanie Chang
• staebler award
• Abdul El-Sayed
• Shobita Parthasarathy
• STPP
• Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program