Publications

The FY 2020 Environmental Justice Progress Report (“FY 2020 Report”), mandated by
Executive Order 12898 on Environmental Justice, highlights the outcomes the EPA is
achieving for communities with environmental justice concerns. These outcomes include
accelerating the clean-up of contaminated sites and returning them to productive use,
improving air quality in areas out of attainment, financing critical water infrastructure
improvements, and delivering technical assistance and grant funding to economically distressed
communities, including Opportunity Zones.

This synopsis covers NEJAC members’ deliberations during the three-day meeting. It also
summarizes the issues raised during the public comment period.

At a November listening session hosted by Puerto Rico’s federally appointed fiscal management board, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez professor Ma

Cities@Tufts recently sponsored a colloquium with the Tufts Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning as part of their semester-long lecture series. Dr. Cecilio Ortiz García and Dr. Marla …

UEP Colloquium: Disaster Response as Transition Management Read More »

by: Hilda Lloréns, Ruth Santiago, Carlos G. Garcia-Quijano,and Catalina M. de Onís Hurricanes are thought of as natural disasters, but the social and environmental devastation wrought uponPuerto Rico by Hurricane María …

Hurricane María: Puerto Rico’s Unnatural Disaster Read More »

This workshop was designed to facilitate a different kind of conversation – one focused primarily on constructing long-term relationships built on the multi-directional flow of knowledge, resources, and capacity between …

PUERTO RICO RISE(ing) Workshop Summary Read More »

By: Catalina de Onís On September 20, 2017, Hurricane María made landfall in Puerto Rico. Blasting theCaribbean archipelago with 155-mile/h winds, this, in many ways, unnatural disasterexposed the brutal consequences …

Energy Colonialism Powers the Ongoing Unnatural Disaster in Puerto Rico Read More »