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    Berger, Ava, Diaa Hadid, and Julia Simon. 2026. "A Melting Glacier Contributed to the Deadly Nepal Floods. We Can Expect More Like This." NPR. https://www.npr.org/2026/08/28/nx-s1...ange-himalayas.

    Bevins, Josh. 2023. The Inflation Reduction Act Finally Gave the U.S. a Real Climate Change Policy. Economic Policy Institute. https://www.epi.org/blog/the-inflation-reduction-act-finally-gave-the-u-s-a-real-climate-change-policy/.

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    Buchholz, Katharina. 2022. “The Countries Emitting the Most CO₂ Per Capita.” https://www.statista.com/chart/20903/countries-emitting-most-co2-per-capita/.

    Bullard, Robert D. 1990. Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. http://www.ciesin.org/docs/010-278/010-278chpt2.html.

    Bullard, Robert D. 1990. Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

    Bullard, Robert D. 1995. “Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color.” Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 15 (4): 203–203.

    Bullard, Robert D. 2008. “Differential Vulnerabilities: Environmental and Economic Inequality and Government Response to Unnatural Disasters.” Social Research 75 (3): 753–84. 

    Bullard, Robert D. and Beverly Wright. 2009. “Race, Place, and the Environment in Post-Katrina New Orleans.” Pp. 19–48 in Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, edited by R. D. Bullard and B. Wright. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

    Bullard, Robert D. and Glenn Johnson. 2000. “Environmental Justice: Grassroots Activism and Its Impact on Public Policy Decision Making.” Journal of Social Issues 56 (January): 555–78.

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    Calhoun-Brown, Allison. 2000. “Upon This Rock: The Black Church, Nonviolence, and the Civil Rights Movement.” PS; Political Science and Politics 33 (2): 168–74. 

    Cameron, Jenny, Peter Hunter, Paul Jagals, and Kathy Pond, eds. 2011. Valuing Water, Valuing Livelihoods. London, United Kingdom: World Health Organization.

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    Cornwall, Warren. 2020. “The Paris Climate Pact Is 5 Years Old. Is It Working?” Science Insider. https://www.science.org/content/article/paris-climate-pact-5-years-old-it-working.

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    Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús, Wolfgang Fengler, Homi Kharas, Karim Bekhtiar, Michael Brottrager, and Martin Hofer. 2018. “Will the Sustainable Development Goals Be Fulfilled? Assessing Present and Future Global Poverty.” Palgrave Communications 4 (1): 1–8. 

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    Daley, Beth. 2011. “Fighting a Losing Battle with the Sea.” Boston.com. http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2011/04/03/fighting_a_losing_battle_with_the_sea.

    DiSavino, Scott. 2012. “Nuclear Accidents Pose Little Risk to Health: NRC.” Reuters. (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/01/us-utilities-nuclear-accidentstudy-idUSTRE8101ZA20120201).

    Dicum, Gregory. 2006. “Meet Robert Bullard, the Father of Environmental Justice.” Grist Magazine. http://www.grist.org/article/dicum.

    Donn, Jeff. 2011. “As Nuclear Plants Age, NRC Loosens Safety Regulations.” The Boston Globe, p. A2.

    Donna DiGiacinto, dir. 2020. Earth Day 2020 NO Pipeline. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23J4rnHaFs0.

    Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. 2015. An Indigenous Peoples’ History Of The United States. Beacon Press.

    Estes, James A., John Terborgh, Justin S. Brashares, Mary E. Power, Joel Berger, William J. Bond, et al. 2011. “Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth.” Science 333(6040): 301–306.

    Estes, Nick. 2019. Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance. Verso Books.

    Evans, Gary W., and Elyse Kantrowitz. 2002. “Socioeconomic Status and Health: The Potential Role of Environmental Risk Exposure.” Annual Review of Public Health 23(1): 303.

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    Fisman, Raymond, and Edward Miguel. 2010. Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

    Fletcher, Amber, dir. 2015. Gender Inequality Is Showing up… in Climate Change. TEDxRegina: TED Talks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPigdDzBDOE.

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    Fountain, Henry. 2010. “Documents Show Risky Decisions Before BP Blowout.” New York Times.

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    Gronlund, Lisa. 2011. “How Many Cancers Did Chernobyl Really Cause?—Updated Version.” Cambridge, MA: Union of Concerned Scientists.

    Guynup, Sharon. 2022. “Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ 60 Years on: Birds Still Fading from the Skies.” Mongabay Environmental News. https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/rachel-carsons-silent-spring-60-years-on-birds-still-fading-from-the-skies/.

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    Hayward, Abi. 2020. “Water Protection and Youth Activism with Autumn Peltier.” Canadian Geographic. https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/water-protection-and-youth-activism-with-autumn-peltier/.

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