“Sustainable Urbanism in Seoul,” a study abroad
June 6–18, 2025
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Enviornmental Injustice

Race, Class & Toxic Inequality
June 4, 2025 6:30pm
Center for Brooklyn History

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Father of Environmental Justice Rebukes Sierra Club

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

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2025 earth day farmer's market a success

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

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EARTH MONTH: Why I'm Asking Sierra Club to Remove My Name from Its Award?
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Top Scientists Issue Urgent Warning on Fossil Fuels

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

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2025 climate Change Conference
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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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vision

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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bullard center digest

May

HBCU Consortium Hosts Gulf South Water Justice, Climate & Health Equity Convening

The Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at Texas Southern University and the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice hosted the Gulf Coast Equity...

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Apr

Class of 2025 Environmental Career Worker Training Program

This year marks a major milestone as we celebrate 30 years of the Environmental Career Worker Training Program (ECWTP). Join us in congratulating the 2025 Graduating Class...

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Mar

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...

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upcoming events

May 22

Public Service Recognition Week Awards

The Greater Houston Chapter of the American Society for Public Recognition invites you to the 2025 Public Service Recognition Week Awards Ceremony.
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bullard center media

FEMA ‘not ready’ for hurricane season; Houstonians aren’t prepared either

An internal FEMA review reveals critical readiness gaps just weeks before hurricane season, while a Rice University study shows only 8% of Houstonians feel prepared...

Houston is the fastest-sinking city in the U.S.

A Nature Cities study found Houston is the fastest-sinking U.S. city, with 42% of its land subsiding over 5mm annually due to groundwater and oil extraction, increasing flood risk

Houston’s trash problem is only getting worse. What will it take to get it under control?

Residents of East Houston, like Angela Jackson, are fed up with the overwhelming stench and illegal dumping near the McCarty Road Landfill...

EPA Funding Cuts Target Disadvantaged Communities, Analysis Shows

The Trump administration’s EPA is terminating over $2.4 billion in environmental justice grants, mostly aiding poor and minority communities...

A Houston Couple’s Decades-Long Fight Against Environmental Racism

Juan and Ana Parras founded T.E.J.A.S. to combat environmental racism in Houston’s industrial corridors, leveraging decades of grassroots organizing to empower...

In Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley,’ Black communities get all of the pollution, few of the jobs

A Tulane study confirms long-standing claims that Black communities in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley" suffer disproportionate pollution while being excluded from both high...

‘People would die’: As summer approaches, Trump is jeopardizing funding for AC

A $378 million funding delay to LIHEAP after mass HHS layoffs threatens vital cooling aid for low-income Americans amid intensifying heat waves.

Lawsuit alleging environmental racism in Louisiana parish allowed to proceed, federal court says

A federal appeals court ruled a lawsuit can proceed against St. James Parish, Louisiana, for alleged racist land-use policies...

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