Hothouse Earth

Environmental Justice

Guests:
Marianne Engelman Lado, Visiting Professor, Douglas Costle Chair in Environmental Law and Director of the Environmental Justice Clinic at Vermont Law School
Phyllis Gosa, sixth-generation resident of the Ashurst Bar/Smith Community
Ronald Smith, Pastor and resident of the Ashurst Bar/Smith Community
Ashley Harper JD'21, Vermont Law School
Environmental Justice Law Society at Vermont Law School - Arielle King JD/MELP’21, Jameson Davis JD'20/MELP'19, Mariana Muñoz JD'21, Jerry Thomas JD'21

Hosts:
Jeannie Oliver, Assistant Professor and Staff Attorney, Energy Clinic
Mason Overstreet, Staff Attorney, Environmental Advocacy Clinic

Recommended Resources:

  • EPA Slams Door to Justice on Historic Black Community, Earth Justice
  • EPA Quietly Closes Complaint at Heart of Civil Rights Suit, Greenwire
  • The Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing
  • US Commission on Civil Rights, "Environmental Justice" (2016)
  • Marianne Engelman Lado, No More Excuses: Building a New Vision of Civil Rights Enforcement in the Context of Environmental Justice, 22 U. Pa. J.L. & Soc. Change 281 (2019).
  • Costle Lecture at Vermont Law School by Douglas Costle Visiting Professor of Law, Marianne Engelman Lado, No More Excuses: Building a New Vision of Civil Rights Enforcement in the Context of Environmental Justice, November 2019.