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Dr. Robert D. Bullard
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Director of Bullard Center Texas Southern University, professor, author of 18 books, NBEJN #HBCU Climate Change Consortium, #ClimateReality Board, AAAS, National Academy of Medicine, TIME Earth Award, Father of Environmental Justice, US Marine Corps Vet. .. more

Robert Doyle Bullard is an American academic who is the former Dean of the Barbara Jordan - Mickey Leland School Of Public Affairs and is currently a Distinguished Professor at Texas Southern University. Previously Ware Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, Bullard is known as the "father of environmental justice". He has been a leading campaigner against environmental racism, as well as the foremost scholar of the problem, and of the Environmental Justice Movement which sprung up in the United States in the 1980s. .. more

Political science 38%
Sociology 37%

Trump EPA Delays Methane Pollution Protections from Oil and Gas Industry Despite Health Risks, Energy Waste, Widespread Opposition - EDF
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Trump EPA Delays Methane Pollution Protections from Oil and Gas Industry Despite Health Risks, Energy Waste, Widespread Opposition
The rule would delay implementation of many of the requirements in the 2024 U.S. EPA Methane Standards by 18 months.
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When Strength Becomes a Burden—Reimagining the Strong Black Woman | Opinion - Newsweek www.newsweek.com/when-strengt...
When Strength Becomes a Burden—Reimagining the Strong Black Woman | Opinion
We’ve carried enough, Black women, it’s time to carry ourselves.
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Interior skips #NEPA analysis for offshore drilling expansion - E&E News by POLITICO www.eenews.net/articles/int...
Interior skips NEPA analysis for offshore drilling expansion
All prior five-year drilling plans — dating back to 1980 — reference National Environmental Policy Act analyses.
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Auto Industry Was Warned For Years of Poisoning, Sickness From Car Batteries - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
The Auto Industry Was Warned: Battery Recycling Was Poisoning People
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Child laborers and other farmworkers in California are being exposed to toxic pesticides, in part because of splintered enforcement of safety regulations.
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Lax Oversight, Few Inspections Leave Child Farmworkers Exposed to Toxic Pesticides
Child laborers and other farmworkers in California are being exposed to toxic pesticides, in part because of splintered enforcement of safety regulations.
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Republican split widens as Texas regulator bashes CCS - E&E News by POLITICO - www.eenews.net/articles/rep...
Republican split widens as Texas regulator bashes CCS
A growing number of GOP elected officials question the use of carbon capture and storage for oil and gas projects.
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Donald Trump exempts coal in steelmaking from Clean Air Act - The Hill thehill.com/policy/energ...
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America's infrastructure scores a C. 2025 Infrastructure Report Card -
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2025 Infrastructure Report Card
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Trump exempts coal used in steelmaking from Clean Air Act rule - The Hill thehill.com/policy/energ...
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Gulf Research Program and NOAA Award Grant to Support Environmental Literacy for Community Resilience -
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Gulf Research Program and NOAA Award Grant to Support Environmental Literacy for Community Resilience - environment coastal & offshore
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Gulf Research Program (GRP) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Environmental Literacy Program are partnering with...
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C.D.C. Quietly Appoints Doctor Critical of Vaccines as Second in Command - New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
C.D.C. Quietly Appoints Doctor Critical of Vaccines as Second in Command
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Our analysis shows many proposed sites are planned in communities with high social vulnerability. Over half of proposed petrochemical facilities are in areas highly vulnerable due to factors like low income, low education, disability, and limited English language ability. 👉🏿 https://ow.ly/Z8Mp50Xw0v1

Most US Latinos feel their situation is worse under Trump, Pew poll finds - Reuters www.reuters.com/world/us/mos...
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In One Week, Trump Moves to Reshape U.S. Environmental Policy - New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
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U.S. dams, levees, stormwater, and wastewater systems get D to D+ grades, need almost $1 trillion in upgrades » Yale Climate Connections
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U.S. dams, levees, stormwater, and wastewater systems get D to D+ grades, need almost $1 trillion in upgrades » Yale Climate Connections
Climate change is increasingly stressing dams, levees, wastewater, and stormwater systems through heavier precipitation events.
yaleclimateconnections.org

Oil Producers, but Maybe Not the Planet, Get a Win as Climate Talks End - New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c... #COP30
Oil Producers, but Maybe Not the Planet, Get a Win as Climate Talks End
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New petrochemical facility plans in the Houston area show an alarming concentration of risk. All 22 proposed petrochemical facilities are planned for fenceline communities already exceeding state averages for poverty, race, social vulnerability and pollution.

Details: https://ow.ly/RzsU50Xw07M

Daily Kos: Known for its oil, Texas became a renewable energy leader. Now it’s being unplugged. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Known for its oil, Texas became a renewable energy leader. Now it’s being unplugged.
The state was to get $400 million for solar energy in disadvantaged communities. The Trump administration took it all back. By� Elena Bruess �for Capital & ...
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BBC: #COP30: UN climate talks fail to secure new fossil fuel promises www.bbc.com/news/article...
COP30: UN climate talks fail to secure new fossil fuel promises
Nearly 200 countries attended COP30, which aimed to commit the world to take more action on climate change.
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AP News: UN climate deal increases money to countries hit by climate change, but no explicit fossil fuel plan apnews.com/article/clim... #COP30
UN climate deal increases money to countries hit by climate change, but no explicit fossil fuel plan
United Nations climate talks in Brazil have reached a subdued agreement to deliver more money to countries hit hardest by climate change to help them adapt to the wrath of extreme weather.
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NRG Energy awarded $370M taxpayer-funded loan to build natural gas power plant in northeast Houston - Houston Chronicle www.houstonchronicle.com/business/ene...
NRG awarded $370 million state loan to build northeast Houston power plant
In total, Houston-based NRG Energy has been awarded more than $1.1 billion in taxpayer-backed loans from the $7.2 billion Texas Energy Fund.
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NYTimes: Climate Talks End With Dire Warnings, but Little Action to Slow Warming www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c... #COP30 #Actonclimate
Climate Talks End With Dire Warnings, but Little Action to Slow Warming
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