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april 2 | 10am-12pm
Sterling Student Life Center
3rd Floor Tiger Room

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2025 Gloria Hobson Nordin Social Equity Award Honoree and Lecturer Robert Bullard
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The 10th Anniversary 2025 HBCU Climate Change Conference was a major success, celebrating a decade of impact, advocacy, and action!
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Community-Engaged EHD Workshop:
Impact-focused Environmental Health Research
Mon, March 24, 2025 8:00am-5:00pm
Duke Energy Hall, Hunt Library
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The Robert D. Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at Texas Southern University combines scholarship and action to dismantle systemic inequality and structural racism that causes disproportionate pain, suffering and death in Black and other people of color communities.

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mission

The Bullard Center's primary mission is to confront systems that create and perpetuate environmental, climate and raccial communities.

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Our vision is to be a leading force for transformative environment and climate justice using rigorous science, community-driven research, policy, civic enagagement programming, and effective advacacy.

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HBCU Climate Change Conference: A Decade of Action and Impact

The 10th Annual HBCU Climate Change Conference successfully advanced its mission of merging science, research, and data with solution-driven actions to address climate vulnerabilities in frontline communities.

black land loss: just compensation for shiloh

The Bullard Center’s Black History Month Theme Black Land Loss: Just Compensation for Shiloh—calls urgent attention to a modern-day crisis that echoes a long history of Black land dispossession.

Advocating for Justice in the Flood-Damaged Shiloh Community

Dr. Robert D. Bullard joined Pastor Timothy Williams, Jocelyn Travis of the Sierra Club, and other environmental justice leaders in advocating for the flood-damaged Black Shiloh community of Elba, Alabama.

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Water Is the New Oil’ as Texas Cities Square Off Over Aquifers

A $1 billion groundwater pipeline project to supply booming Central Texas cities has ignited a legal battle over aquifer rights, exposing the limits...

The $20B question hanging over America’s struggling farmers

Climate disasters cost U.S. farmers over $20 billion in 2024, yet most federal aid favors large commodity producers...

Low carbon farming 'essential' for climate goals

The Climate Change Committee (CCC) stresses that low-carbon farming is essential for Northern Ireland’s climate goals.

Last decade was Earth's hottest ever as CO2 levels reach an 800,000-year high, says UN report

The UN's World Meteorological Organization reports that the past decade was the hottest on record, with 2024 surpassing the 1.5°C warming limit.

The Republicans Pushing Trump to Save Biden’s Clean Energy Tax Credits

Trump’s vow to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, some Republicans and business leaders back its clean energy tax credits...

The end of the EPA’s fight to protect over polluted communities

The Trump administration shut down EPA environmental justice offices, laying off hundreds amid broader attacks on DEI efforts.

Judge bars Trump’s EPA from taking back $20B in climate grants

A federal judge temporarily blocked the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt to recoup $20 billion in Biden-era climate...

Countries must bolster climate efforts or risk war, Cop30 chief executive warns

Ana Toni, Brazil's chief executive of the upcoming Cop30 summit, emphasizes that nations must integrate climate action...

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