in the press
2024
EPA pressured to omit CCS in next power plant rule
POLITICO Pro, June 5, 2024
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The Waverley Street Foundation Ensures That Every Neighborhood is Environmentally Safe
Essence Magazine, May 28, 2024
BIDEN’S ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SCORECARD OFFERS MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS
Grist, April 11, 2024
WHAT EJ LEADERS WANT FROM EPA’S GAS RULE DO-OVER
2023
it’s time we put an end to the carbon capture farce
Common Dreams, November 14, 2023
Local and global environmental justice leaders share ancestral traditions
KUAM News, October 23, 2023
Visiting advisory council members learn about environmental issues in the Marianas
Marianas Variety, October 22, 2023
Environmental justice leaders gather for 'Making Waves: For Peace and Climate Justice In The Pacific'
KUAM News, October 20, 2023
'Making Waves: For Peace and Climate Justice in the Pacific' summit starts Friday
KUAM News, October 19, 2023
'Making waves' peace, climate justice summit in Sinajana on Friday, Saturday
Pacific Daily News, October 19, 2023
KKMP Radio of the Northern Mariana Islands interviews Tishman Center’s EJ Movement Fellows
KKMP Radio, October 19, 2023
The Making Waves Summit set in Guam Oct. 20-21
Saipan Tribune, October 16, 2023
Is Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) Racist?
Go Green Radio, September 8, 2023
‘down your throat’: biden pushes ccs on polluted places
E&E News, August 22, 2023
new york’s apocalyptic air isn’t deadly for me. it can be for others.
The New Republic, June 8, 2023
Who Decides Matters: How The Environmental Movement Is Democratizing And Diversifying
Advancing climate justice in new york city
PBS Thirteen, April 10, 2023
Environmental Justice Leader María Belén Power To Join Healey-Driscoll Administration in New Leadership Position
Chelsea Record, March 2, 2023
looking at environmental and natural resource economics through the lens of racial equity
Resource, March 29, 2023
too many in NJ live near hazardous materials. This is what lawmakers must do
Northjersey.com, January 13, 2023
Moral injury as an inclusive mental health framework for addressing climate change distress and promoting justice-oriented care
The Lancet, March 7, 2023
2022
climate initiative centers black americans
AP News, August 25, 2022
biden’s justice40 initiative picking up speed after slow start
The New Lede, August 9, 2022
A New Law Could Clean Up One of America’s Most Polluted Neighborhoods
Business Insider, August 4, 2022
Testimony to the NJ Department of Environmental Protection (NJ DEP)
Public Square, July 28, 2022
New York City selects team to design a report and public portal for tracking environmental injustices
Archinect News, July 18, 2022
As the World’s Garbage Piles Up, Controversy Over Waste-to-Energy Incineration Continues
The Good Men Project, July 16, 2022
New Jersey releases blueprint for landmark environmental justice law
Grist, June 22, 2022
How science could aid the US quest for environmental justice
Nature, June 2, 2022
Experts to White House: EJ screening tool should consider race
E&E News, June 1, 2022
Is It Time to Stop Burning Our Garbage?
Bloomberg, May 23, 2022
Rep. Sheila Babauta selected as NMC commencement’s keynote speaker
Marianas Variety, May 19, 2022
Rep. Sheila Babauta chosen as NMC commencement’s keynote speaker
Saipan Tribune, May 19, 2022
How did recycling get so confusing?
Borneo Bulletin, May 5, 2022
‘We are still on the battlefield’: Chester residents rally over Delco contract with controversial trash incinerator company
WHYY (PBS), April 23, 2022
Cities Must Address The Threat Of Climate Change
Forbes, April 22, 2022
trash or recycling? why plastic keeps us guessing.
The New York Times, April 21, 2022
Environmental justice groups sue over incinerator pollution
AP News, January 27, 2022
Reducing trash may reduce the need for incinerators in Mass.
WBUR, January 21, 2022
White House departures send tremors through environmental community
Politico, January 12, 2022
Press Archives
2021
Foundations commit billions to fight climate change, Federal News Network, 11/11/2021
Do You Live Near a Cancer Hot Spot?, Cancer Health, A New Tox Map Lets You Know, 11/10/21
Talking trash: Communities face garbage double bind, Adirondack Explorer, 07/13/2021
Maine joins debate over how to define environmental justice, Energy News Network, 07/13/2021
Cumulative Impact Ordinances Address Environmental Justice, EHS Daily Advisor, 05/03/2021
Baltimore is burning trash, so we're starving the fire, The Guradian, 04/13/2021
The people who caused the climate crisis aren’t the ones who will fix it, Ted Talks 02/25/2021
40% of climate benefits? Explaining Biden's EJ promise, E&E News, 02/16/2021
Environmental Groups’ Greatest Obstacle May Not Be Republican Opposition, Politico, 02/05/2021
Pledge drive urges funding racially diverse climate efforts, The Independent, 02/04/2021
Pledge drive urges funding racially diverse climate efforts, Minneapolis Star Tribune, 02/04/2021
Pledge drive urges funding racially diverse climate efforts, AP, 02/04/2021
North Hempstead signs $11M trash disposal deal with Covanta, Newsday, 01/27/2021
2020
The people who cause the climate crisis aren’t the ones who will fix it, TED Talk, 12/2020
ESG Action of the Year: New Jersey's environmental justice law, Waste Dive, 12/09/2020
He helped pass a historic EJ bill. But he’s just getting started. Grist, 10/14/2020
Inside the Fight to Shut Down Baltimore's Pollution-Spewing Trash Incinerator, Vice, 09/24/2020
Clever Ep. 126: Sustainability Thought Leader Joel Towers, Design Milk, 08/11/2020
One thing you can do: Help a neighbor beat the heat, New York Times, 08/05/2020
Stop Polluters From Choking Black Lives, NJ.com, 07/27/2020
The Burning Issue, Grist, 07/23/2020
COVID-19 Impact Linked to Environmental Racism, Women’s Media Center, 07/16/2020
Opinion: Extreme Heat’s Risk Swells in the Summer of COVID, City Limits, 07/14/2020
Covid-19 Exposes the Health Dangers of Burning Trash, Center for NYC Affairs, 05/27/2020
Op-Ed: Coronavirus Crisis Demands Environmental-Justice Response, NJ Spotlight, 05/19/2020
In the Shadows of America's Smokestacks, Virus is one more Deadly Risk, New York Times, 05/17/2020
The Corona crisis: Why are more black Americans dying than whites?, Politiken, 04/ 10/ 2020
Everything You Need to Know About Sustainable Underwear, Teen Vogue, 03/04/2020
Wasted Potential: The consequences of New York City's recycling failure, Politico, 01/05/2020
2019
How Pharrell and Bionic Yarn turn ocean plastic into fashion, The Hill, 11/12/2019
Newark Exhibit Informing Community On Environmental Injustice, New Jersey News Network, 11/12/2019
As climate activism surges, fast fashion brands like H&M and Zara may suffer, ABC News, 10/06/2019
Wastestreaming, Urban Omnibus, 10/02/2019
Climate Change Is Oppressing Black People, The Root, 10/02/2019
New Schoolers Prepare to Strike for Climate Action, The New School Free Press, 9/21/2019
Public comment open for Wheelabrator air permit renewal in Hudson Falls, The Post Star, 8/29/2019
INSIGHT: Don’t Incinerate Waste; Get Circular, Optimize Plastics, Bloomberg Environment, 8/8/2019
America’s youth think they can save the world and get rich, The Middletown Press, 7/15/2019
5 Things you should know about the impacts of burning trash, GreenBiz, 6/28/2019
Report: 2 LI trash-burning plants among highest mercury emitters, Newsday.com, 5/30/2019
Incinerators in Camden, Chester, among nation’s most polluting, report finds, Whyy.org, 5/23/2019
Study claims millions in the U.S. are exposed to waste incinerator pollution, Waste 360, 5/23/2019
Study shows incinerators are in 80% of EJ communities nationally & NJ, Insider NJ, 5/22/2019
Report: Hudson Valley incinerator one of top polluters in U.S., Hudson Valley Post, 5/22/2019
4.4 million people in the U.S. are exposed to pollution from waste incinerators, YubaNet, 5/21/2019
Does Your City Employ Environmental Justice Best Practices? Color Lines, 5/14/2019
Which Cities have concrete strategies for environmental justice? Grist, 5/12/2019
Which Cities Have Concrete Strategies for Environmental Justice? CityLab, 5/7/2019
Tar Sands Songbook, Resilience.org, 5/7/2019
Can New York have a Green New Deal and a new fracked gas pipeline? Grist, 3/21/2019
How to choose clothes that will last, Mother Nature Network, 2/26/2019
New Report: Land Use Reforms Can Break Cycle of American Environmental Racism, NRDC, 2/21/2019
2018
Parsons School of Design appoints new Dean, Fashion United India, 12/20/2018
Back To The Burner: Black Friday Is National Throw-Away Day, Forbes, 11/13/2018
The Fate of the Earth Depends on Women, The Nation, 11/8/2018
Why fashion brands destroy billions worth of their own merchandise every year? Vox, 9/17/2018
The New School Community Disrupts Climate Injustice, New School News, 2/28/2018
The New School Takes on NYC’s Zero Waste Challenge, School Construction News, 1/12/2018
2017
How The New School Is Advancing NYC’s ‘Green’ Efforts, The University Network, 12/8/2017
How climate change will transform business and the workforce, BBC Future, 9/17/2017
Dining on Climate Data: Using Food to Explain Climate Change, Huffpost, 7/17/2017
A Feminism for the Masses, Harper’s Magazine, 4/17/2017
School of Public Health sponsors first Black History Month lecture, The Brown Daily Herald, 4/7/2017
NYC’s Climate Research Resources Are Melting Faster Than the Ice Caps, The Village Voice, 2/28/2017
#NODAPL, The Carolinian, 2/22/2017
Gentrificación socava salud de la Gran Manzana, El Diario, 2/21/2017
Nearly 8,000 U.S. public schools are plagued by toxic air, Grist, 2/20/2017
The Wastelands of Urban Renewal, CityLab, 2/13/2017
The Most Important Modern Farmer Might Be The Urban Cowboy, Good, 2/11/2017
Eugene Lang College Is Creating Socially Engaged Scientists, The New School News, 2/7/2017
Beyond the Hype: 5 Ways to Think About Virtual and Augmented Reality in Schools, EdSurge, 2/7/2017
¿Por qué la ciencia tiene un futuro sombrío con Trump?, El Financiero, 1/26/2017
Trump officials suspend plan to delete EPA climate web pages, Science Magazine, 1/25/2017
Grant freeze to be narrower, shorter than expected — officials, E&E News, 1/25/2017
Podcast Ep 34: Preparing For The Fight With Dr. Mindy Fullilove, The Mash-up Americans, 1/16/2017
Could Trump Administration Undo Toxic Passaic River Fix? WNYC, 1/13/2017
How Pittsburgh remembers a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, PRI, 1/7/2017
2016
Compania care transforma plasticul din oceane in haine, Ziare.com, 12/28/2016
Environmental Justice Enters Its Age of Anxiety, CityLab, 12/14/2016
The challenges of diversity in sustainability leadership, GreenBiz, 12/12/2016
Why Trump’s Use of the Words ‘Urban Renewal’ Is Scary for Cities, The New York Times, 12/7/2016
Pro-tips for buying clothes that will last years, not weeks, Quartz, 12/4/2016
Trump teams feature thin rosters, mixed bag on experience, E&E News, 12/1/2016
Let Professionals Show You How To Do Group Projects Right, The New School Press, 12/1/2016
Live Q&A: How shall we plan the cities of the future?, The Guardian, 11/21/2016
Feasting Our Eyes through Food Films, HuffPost, 11/21/2016
Food Studies in Trump’s United States, HuffPost, 11/14/2016
New School Faculty Members Confront Environmental Injustices, New School News, 11/8/2016
Housing summit aims to connect scholars, activists, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 11/7/2016
For more resilient cities, think small(er) and look to vacant lots, Berkeley News, 11/1/2017
Chewing on Taste: A Philosophical Reflection, HuffPost, 10/31/2016
Vi måste klä oss bättre, SVENKA YLE, 10/31/2016
Population boom adds to city threats, Eco-Business, 10/28/2016
Considering the City: The Buki Plan, the Viaduct and Erie CPR, Erie Reader, 10/28/2016
Civil-Rights Attorney Maya Wiley on How to Keep Fighting the Good Fight, The Cut, 10/26/2016
The Spirit of Food Design in Latin America, Huffpost, 10/24/2016
Here’s How The World Can Adapt To The Rapid Rise Of Cities, HuffPost, 10/21/2016
City Council to Examine NYPD Oversight Board, Gotham Gazette, 10/21/2016
Nations agree on global road map to steer breakneck urbanization, Reuters, 10/20/2016
Visualizing the Toughest Challenges Facing Global Cities, CityLab, 10/20/2016
State Not Doing Enough to Protect Poor from Pollution, Advocates Argue, NJ Spotlight, 10/19/2016
Yvonne Watson: Defining the Future of Fashion, AARP, 10/17/2016
Vodka, nalewka and wine: Polish spirits in transition, Huffpost, 10/16/2016
Scientists must have a say in the future of cities, Nature, 10/10/2016
Old Anger and a Lost Neighborhood In Charlotte, CityLab, 10/11/2016
Building a ‘Good’ Anthropocene From the Bottom Up, The New York Times, 10/6/2016
When your students go hungry, HuffPost, 10/3/2016
Construction update: The Caesura in the Brooklyn Cultural District, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 9/28/2016
Maya Wiley Shapes the Social Justice Agenda at The New School, New School News, 9/27/2016
This Company Turns Plastic Bottle Trash From The Ocean Into Clothing, HuffPost, 9/27/2016
Why This Company Wants You To Fall In Love With People’s Old Jeans, Huffpost, 9/14/2016
An Afghan refugee is using drones to save other refugees' lives, PRI, 9/14/2016
'Good Drones' Conducts Test Flights To Save Lesbos Refugees, Popular Science, 8/24/2016
Show Your #NewSchoolSpirit with Impact Conscious Swag from The New Store, New School News, 8/22/2016
The farm upstairs, Curbed, 8/16/2016
Route 280 project looks at downside of highway | Di Ionno, NJ.com, 7/31/2016
Police Killings and Race: Do the Numbers Tell the Whole Story? Live Science, 7/26/2016
Angela Luna, BFA Fashion ’16, Designs Solutions for Refugees, New School News, 7/19/2016
Love Durham? Then you need to come to Mindy Fullilove's talk about cities, Indy Week, 7/17/2016
No BackSpace: Civilian Complaint Review Board Staggers On, CityLimits.org, 7/15/2016
Advocates, Pols Assess City’s MWBE Program as Maya Wiley Departs, Observer, 7/12/2016
NYPD Watchdog Gets A New Handler, WNYC, 7/7/2016
CUOMO’s Bridgegate communications -- MAYA WILEY’s move -- SCHOOL AID jockeying, Politico, 7/05/2016
Newark Community Group Feuds with Sierra Club over Cleanup of Passaic River, NJSpotlight, 3/7/2016
John L. Tishman, builder who shaped American skylines, dies at 90, CNBC, 2/7/2016
Parsons Celebrates ‘Emerging Voices’ in Design, New School News, 2/4/2016
Ana Baptista: “Children of Color Are the Most At-Risk Victims of Pollution”, Huffpost, 10/28/2014