Articles by Brentin Mock
Brentin Mock is a staff writer at CityLab and Grist's former justice editor. Follow him on Twitter at @brentinmock.
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New Orleans school won’t be built atop a toxic dump — for now
A small alumni group from the floundering Walter L. Cohen High School has beaten back a proposal to relocate to a former landfill.
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Sierra Club honors environmental justice. Who’s next?
The club's new award is named after environmental justice pioneer Robert Bullard. Nice move. Here are some ideas for other green groups.
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Are there two different versions of environmentalism, one “white,” one “black”?
1970s scholars posited that an “apartheid ecology” excluded people of color from environmentalism. Were they right?
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Think people of color don’t care about the environment? Think again
Dorceta Taylor, professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment, talks about her new report about environmental groups' failure to diversify.
