Environmental Racism

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
A Final Solution to The Human Surplus Problem (Or, How the End of EPA’s Endangerment Finding Also Ends the Farce of Trump “Populism”)
18 Feb 2026
Trump's EPA denies that greenhouse gases endanger public health. It is destroying public health protections and confirms that environmental policy serves corporate interests exclusively.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Marisa Solomon’s Book, “The Elsewhere Is Black”
04 Feb 2026
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Marisa Solomon. Solomon is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The EPA’s Zero Sum Game Surfaces a Dialectical Paradox That Should Be Celebrated, Not Decried
04 Feb 2026
The debate over the EPA's new math misses the point. The agency hasn't changed its values, it has simply stopped pretending to account for communities it was never built to protect.
Adam Mahoney
After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area
14 Jan 2026
Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Rising Temperatures and the Rising Need for a Black Radical Lens in the Climate Change Discourse.
04 Jun 2025
Liberal climate movements keep bargaining with capitalism, but the Black Radical Tradition knows survival requires its destruction. Environmentalism must adopt principles of abolition and anti-…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
NYC’s Congestion Pricing Program Comes with the Cost of Sacrificing Constitutionally Mandated Human Rights of NYC’s Environmental Justice Communities
08 Jan 2025
NYC's new congestion pricing program has grave environmental justice implications for poor, working class, and Black communities which will be subjected to increased pollution and poor air quality.
Kodjovi Kpachavi
Lawton’s Second Parasite: The Empire’s First Cobalt Refinery
27 Nov 2024
The domestic expression of imperialism has once again been made clear with the installation of a new cobalt refinery in an Oklahoma town. Through the extraction of raw materials from the global south…
Lylla Younes
Black Residents in Cancer Alley Try What May be a Last Legal Defense to Curb Toxic Pollution
23 Oct 2024
In St. James Parish, a zoning ordinance divides industrial development along racial lines.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Why All Hurricanes Should Be Named “Jim”
16 Oct 2024
Hurricanes Helene and Milton are the result of a long legacy of segregation, environmental racism, and extraction. This white supremacist capitalist system has brought us to this point in our climate…
Anthony Rogers-Wright
The Democrats Have Lost Their Trump Card: A Study of Three Issue Areas
15 May 2024
The Democrats have used the very old tactic of winning votes out of fear, recently that of the MAGA boogeyman. But this tactic is finally beginning to lose its effect.