Background: Plastics have conveyed great benefits to humanity and made possible some of
the most significant advances of modern civilization in fields as diverse as medicine …

This article begins with a review and synthesis of some of the key theories, scholars, case
examples, debates, methods, and (multiple) interpretations of environmental justice (EJ), as …

Background: Few studies have investigated air pollution exposure disparities by
race/ethnicity and income across criteria air pollutants, locations, or time. Objective: The …

Drinking water contaminated by per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) is a widespread
public health concern, and exposure–response relationships are known to vary across …

Environmental injustices have exposed our current system of reliance on polluting and toxic
chemicals and chemistries as untenable and one whose risks and burdens are …

Redlining was a racially discriminatory housing policy established by the federal
government's Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) during the 1930s. For decades …

This article explores how time interacts forcefully with the experience of living within toxic
spaces. Through ethnographic research and interviews with residents of a contaminated …

Objective: Explore regulatory factors that contributed to the decrease in exposure to lead
among the US population since 1970. Design/Setting: We present historical information …

From St. Louis to New Orleans, from Baltimore to Oklahoma City, there are poor and minority
neighborhoods so beset by pollution that just living in them can be hazardous to your health …

Longstanding inequities in science education across the lines of race and class remain the
most intractable problem in the field. Justice‐centered science pedagogy is introduced as a …