Environmental Health and Environmental Justice Knowledge

An Open Education Resources Curriculum for Post Secondary Students About Environmental Health and Environmental Justice

You are here: Home / Lessons / On the Fenceline – Explorations

Uncategorized / by

On the Fenceline – Explorations

Required Material

Self-select one chapter of choice each from:

Books

  • Animal’s People, by Indra Sinha, Simon and Schuster. A fictionalized, yet compelling story inspired by the Bhopal disaster.
  • An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas,  by Diane Wilson. 
  • A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind, by Harriet Washington. Little Brown
  • Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality  by Robert Bullard  Taylor and Francis  (for a full list of Dr. Bullard’s books, click here). 
  • Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger, By Judy Sze University of California Press.
  • Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene, edited by Stacia Ryder et. al. Routledge
  • Cite this chapter
  • “Teaching Anti-Racism Through Environmental Justice Studies.” In: Haltinner, K. (eds) Teaching Race and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America. Springer, Dordrecht. Pellow, D.N. (2014).
  • There’s Something In The Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities by Ingrid R.C. Waldron   Fernwood Publishing.
Self-select two of the various elements listed below:

Long Version Interviews

Participants shared so many personal insights and deep knowledge, it was impossible to use all of the interview for the podcasts. Please explore these longer conversations for additional understanding and education.

Pamela Miller, Founder and Executive Director, Alaska Community Action on Toxics, Co-chair of the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN).

Listen to Pam Miller

Mark Mitchell, MD, MPH, Emeritus Professor of Climate Change, Energy, & Environmental Health Equity at George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change Communications, Co-Chair of the Connecticut Equity and Environmental Justice Advisory Council, with the Commissioner of the CT Department of Environmental Protection. Chair of the National Medical Association’s Council on Environmental Health and Climate Change

Monica Unseld, Founder, Until Justice Data Partners

Diane Wilson, San Antonia Bay Waterkeeper

Viola “Vi” Waghiyi, a Sivuqaq Yupik, Native Village of Savoonga Tribal Citizen (St Lawrence Island), mother, and grandmother, Environmental Health and Justice Program Director, Alaska Community Action on Toxics, member of U.S. White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council..

Articles

  • “A Valuable Reputation,” the New Yorker Magazine, about biochemist Tyrone Hayes.
  • “Ecological Unequal Exchange: Quantifying Emissions of Toxic Chemicals Embodied in the Global Trade of Chemicals, Products, and Waste.” Tong, Kate, et al. Environmental Research Letters, vol. 17, no. 4, 1 Apr. 2022, p. 044054.
  • “Environmental Contamination of the Yupik People on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska,” by David Carpenter. 2011. Journal of Indigenous Research.
  • “First Nations step up efforts to have Dryden, Ont., paper mill shut down over mercury contamination.” May 27, 2026 CBC News.

Reports

Videos

Other Podcasts

DDT in Africa, based on a U.S. Congressional Briefing.

  • Agents of Change, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Environmental Health News collaboration presenting voices of those working on environmental justice. 
  • Broken Ground with Robert Bullard from the Southern Environmental Law Center.
  • Living on Earth, “EPA Charged with Reverse Discrimination.” Monique Harden from the Deep South Centre for Environmental Justice.
  • Toxic Avengers with Daniel Rosenberg – Long time environmental health stalwart Daniel Rosenberg interviews environmental health and environmental justice advocates. 

Websites