Category 1990s Environmental Justice

La Causa, a project of Communities for a Better Environment wins an environmental justice victory in Southeast Los Angeles.

Founded in 1978, Communities for a Better Environment (CBE, Norman grantee 1995–2001, 2007) combines community organizing, scientific research, and legal advocacy to fight industrial pollution in low-income communities of color across California. CBE and concerned residents of Southeast Los Angeles…

As corporate agribusiness tightens its grip on rural America, Norman grantees fight to keep family farms alive.

The farm crisis of the 1980s drove tens of thousands of American farms out of business and pushed rural suicide rates to their highest levels since the Great Depression. In the 1990s, a new threat emerged: the systematic corporate takeover…