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NYU law center will address ‘environmental racism’
The College Fix ^ | 25 Apr, 2024 | MATT LAMB

Posted on 04/27/2024 6:27:09 AM PDT by MtnClimber

‘This gift innovatively targets the intersection of two areas of pressing social concern, environmental harm and racial inequity,’ dean says.

New York University law students will soon be able to learn how to fight for a “decarbonized future” and against “environmental racism.”

The university announced a new Environmental Justice Laboratory will begin this fall.

“This gift innovatively targets the intersection of two areas of pressing social concern, environmental harm and racial inequity,” Dean Troy McKenzie stated in a news release.

“Environmental justice has been an emerging area of focus here at the Law School and across the country,” McKenzie stated. “This funding will enable us to significantly expand that work and contribute meaningfully to the field. I’m grateful to the Napolis for their extraordinary generosity.”

The money comes from Paul and Marie Napoli, two attorneys who have a daughter at the law school.

The university announced:

The EJL will provide law students with a unique opportunity to engage in cutting-edge policy advocacy, litigation, and research in the field of environmental justice. It will aim to develop a critical mass of legal practitioners, academics, and clinicians dedicated to addressing environmental problems that disproportionately burden communities of color and low-income neighborhoods, and promoting environmental and social change.

The university said the lab will work with the school’s Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law and its Center on Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law.

The New York Civil Liberties Union says environmental racism can take different forms.

“Environmental racism refers to the institutional rules, regulations, policies, or government and/or corporate decisions that deliberately target Black and Brown communities for placement of major sources of pollution,” the group’s racial justice center’s director wrote.

“These communities are targeted for locally undesirable land uses based on the lax enforcement of zoning and environmental laws,” the article states. “As a result, communities of color are disproportionately exposed to hazardous toxins.”

It is possible the new initiative will organize people to protest, since the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law gives tips on this topic. It appears to be left over from Black Lives Matter protests during COVID lockdowns.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: ecofascism; enemieslist; marienapoli; marxism; nyu; nyulaw; paulnapoli; troymckenzie
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To: MtnClimber

The obvious conclusion is that Global Warming will be in minority neighborhoods. Not in white neighborhoods.


21 posted on 04/27/2024 8:39:21 AM PDT by gitmo (If your biography doesn't match your theology, what good is it?)
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To: MtnClimber

The obvious conclusion is that Global Warming will be in minority neighborhoods. Not in white neighborhoods.


22 posted on 04/27/2024 8:39:21 AM PDT by gitmo (If your biography doesn't match your theology, what good is it?)
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To: MtnClimber

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23 posted on 04/27/2024 9:00:32 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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24 posted on 04/27/2024 1:33:35 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Your technology, it frightens and confuses me.)
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To: Leaning Right

Race relations were far too smooth and essentially not a problem in 2008 America.

Then, the Bamster arrived to reopen, as you say, old wounds.

CRT. Hate Whitey.

Without victims, the democrat party would evaporate.


25 posted on 04/27/2024 1:50:37 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Leaning Right

Race relations were far too smooth and essentially not a problem in 2008 America.

Then, the Bamster arrived to reopen, as you say, old wounds.

CRT. Hate Whitey.

Without victims, the democrat party would evaporate.


26 posted on 04/27/2024 1:53:02 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Leaning Right

Race relations were far too smooth and essentially not a problem in 2008 America.

Then, the Bamster arrived to reopen, as you say, old wounds.

CRT. Hate Whitey.

Without victims, the democrat party would evaporate.


27 posted on 04/27/2024 1:53:25 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: MtnClimber

THIS PLANET IS A CARBON BASED PLANET——PERIOD.


28 posted on 04/27/2024 4:54:09 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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