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The Environmental Justice Law & Advocacy Lab today released its report on a Bay Area animal rendering plant operated by Darling International Ingredients, Inc. (Darling). In 2021, Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice (Greenaction) reached out to the EJ Law and…
Santa Clara Law has an incredibly passionate alumni base. It has been evident to me, through the past two years, that graduates are proud to be Broncos. In the environmental law program, we are especially fortunate to have John Cruden…
Last week, the EJ Advocacy Lab headed to East Bay as part of our work on CA civil rights law §11135. As we bear witness to the outcomes of disinvestment, neglect, and prioritization of heavy industries, we continue to work…
The following is from the poster presented at the 2022 New Horizons in Conservation Conference at the Yale School of the Environment. Abstract Since 1969, Darling Ingredients, Inc. has operated an animal rendering plant in Bayview-Hunters Point (BVHP), a low…
Frontline communities too often experience one environmental injustice after another—water pollution from heavy industries, contamination from shuttered factories, and a lack of access to fresh food in the case of South Vallejo, a predominantly Black low income community in Northern…
Last June, the Advocacy Lab submitted public comments on behalf of the Environmental Justice and the Common Good Initiative urging the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) to deny the permit applications of several concrete manufacturers that for years…
By Declan Bernal and Emily Pachoud Bayview Hunters Point (BVHP) and Treasure Island are two low-income communities in San Francisco made up of primarily BIPOC residents that are disproportionately burdened with pollution sources and toxic contamination. Lennar Corporation—one of the…
This winter quarter, Environmental Studies and Sciences faculty member and SCU Law alumnus Zsea Bowmani JD ’14 will lead a multidisciplinary team of undergraduate and law students in community-engaged legal research and advocacy as part of a new law project…
