Resource Guides: Environmental Justice: Books, Articles, and Reports

Books and Learning Materials 📚

Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

Not Too Late brings strong climate voices from around the world to address the political, scientific, social, and emotional dimensions of the most urgent issue human beings have ever faced.

In essays and interviews, this volume features the voices of Indigenous activists, such as Guam-based attorney and writer Julian Aguon; climate scientists, among them Jacquelyn Gill and Edward Carr; artists, such as Marshall Islands poet and activist Kathy Jeñtil-Kijiner; and longtime organizers, including The Tyranny of Oil author Antonia Juhasz and Emergent Strategy author adrienne maree brown. Shaped by the wisdom of editors Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and enhanced by illustrations by David Solnit, this book is a guide to take us from climate crisis to climate hope.

See the Not Too Late website for additional ways to take action, including the "What Can I Do About the Climate Emergency?" guide, and the Not Too Late Study Guide to support teachers (and anyone who wants to form an independent study group), which includes:

A STUDY GUIDE outlining topics with which to build discussions and analysis, research projects, writing assignments, and class presentations
ROUTE MAPS through the book
an ANNOTATED TABLE OF CONTENTS for the book

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Reports

Environmental Justice Strategy: Commonwealth of Massachusetts (2024)

The EJ Strategy consists of initiatives and programs to advance environmental justice and equityacross EEA and its agencies. Environmental justice strategies that pertain to EEA and eachspecific agency under the purview of EEA are presented separately in this document. As a publicand living document, the intended audience of the EJ Strategy is EEA staff as well as the public.This document is designed to inform and assist EEA staff in the planning and implementation ofprograms and policies under EEA’s purview. It is also a tool for public engagement.

Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights Implementation Plans (FY 2023)

Under the leadership of Administrator Michael S. Regan, the U.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency (EPA) is committed to integrating environmental justice (EJ) and external civil rights(ECR) in all the Agency’s work to maximize benefits and minimize impacts to underserved andoverburdened communities to continue to protect human health and the environment. Critical toachieving this goal is for EPA to proactively engage with tribes, states, local governments, andcommunities to discuss and address disproportionate impacts and historical injustices. EPA willwork to increase the capacity of communities to address EJ and civil rights concerns; andembed EJ, equity, and civil rights in the Agency’s core work.

What is the CDC Doing to Address Social Determinants of Health? (2024)

Because health equity is a priority for CDC, the agency has taken multiple steps to ensure that efforts to address the social determinants of health (SDOH) are built into the agency’s work and not confined to a single program, CDC center, or public health topic.

In fall 2021, CDC leadership started an agencywide process to build and expand cross-cutting efforts to address SDOH.¹ This effort was led by the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) and resulted in a framework of six pillars

Articles

Source: Carbon Brief analysis of modelling in Bistline et al. (2023) and Rhodium Group (Taking stock 2023). Chart by Carbon Brief.

How a Trump election win could add 4bn tonnes to US emissions by 2030: an Analysis by CarbonBrief

A victory for Donald Trump in November’s presidential election could lead to an additional 4bn tonnes of US emissions by 2030 compared with Joe Biden’s plans, Carbon Brief analysis reveals.

In total, the analysis suggests that US greenhouse gas emissions would fall to 28% below 2005 levels by 2030 if Trump secures a second term and rolls back Biden’s policies – far short of the 50-52% target. If Biden is reelected, emissions would fall to around 43% below 2005 levels.

In the Trump scenario, annual US greenhouse gas emissions would be around 1GtCO2e higher in 2030 than under Biden, resulting in a cumulative addition of around 4GtCO2e by that year.

Carbon Brief’s analysis is based on an aggregation of modelling by various US research groups. It highlights the significant impact of the Biden administration’s climate policies. This includes the Inflation Reduction Act – which Trump has pledged to reverse – along with several other policies.