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The Beacon is an environmental justice-focused blog discussing current developments in the law, proposals to achieve more just actions to those disproportionately affected by environmental impacts, and those leading the movements to trailblaze an environmentally just future.
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Debunking EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s Claims of the Economic Harms of Emission Regulations By Max Oechsner The current American administration has been canceling climate change initiatives since its first day...

Two Approaches to Energy Access: United States Justice vs. European Union Rights By Diamond McAllister The United States (US) and the European Union (EU) take different approaches to energy...

Stewarding the Land: Why the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe Should Retain Their Sovereign Immunity By Maddy Foley In a 2004 Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts decision, Building Inspector and Zoning...

Community Land Trusts as a Tool for Land Reparations By: Jill Reynolds Whiteness is embedded in property law. From the groundbreaking law review article, Whiteness as Property, “American law...

Our Food System is Sustained by Undocumented Immigrants By Dalia Rodriguez-Caspeta On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump signed 26 executive orders.[1] Amongst them was Executive Order 14159 titled “Protecting...

An Old-Fashioned Disease Still Poses Modern-Day Threats in Coal Country By Savannah Collins Hello, everyone! This is Savannah Collins, the VJEL Volume 26 Environmental Justice Editor, and this is my...

Wasting Time: The Undoing of a Two-Year Septic Improvement Agreement Between the Department of Justice and the State of Alabama By Aamore Richards The Trump administrations recent approach to Diversity,...

Whose World is This? By Nakyshia Fralin In “The World Is Yours,” Nas raps about being “out for dead presidents to represent [him].” While layered with meaning, there’s a...

From Pollution Catastrophe to a Just and Equitable Future By Christian Patierno The armpit of America (as out-of-staters often refer to it), New Jersey, is working to shed this distasteful...
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