Environmental justice and natural resource extraction: intersections of power, equity and access

A Path Toward Systemic Equity in Life Cycle Assessment and Decision-Making: Standardizing Sociodemographic Data Practices

“…A clear example of this is shown in the tension between environmental justice groups and extractive industries (e.g., the coal power plant and oil industries). The efforts of environmental justice groups have been made more difficult by the historical inequitable distribution of economic resources to extractive industries, in the form of tax breaks or legislative influence, with limited distribution of resources to groups that aim to preserve natural resources and ecosystem services (Malin et al , 2019 ). A lack of distributive resources and foresight can result in net-negative outcomes and undermine trust between vulnerable communities and their partners (Boone et al , 2009 ; Schwarz et al , 2015 ).…”

Challenging the white spaces of environmental sociology

“…Bullard [1990Bullard [ ] 2000Bullard [ , 2020Pellow 2007Pellow , 2016Pulido 2015Pulido , 2016Pulido , 2017Taylor 1997Taylor , 2014 and even a recent special issue on 'Race and Environmental Equity' in Du Bois Review (see Takeuchi et al 2016). Building on these efforts, as well as decades of Black feminism and intersectionality studies (see Hill Collins [2000Collins [ ] 2009Collins [ , 2015, increased scholarly attention has also been paid to environmental inequalities at the intersections of multiple, mutually constituted modes of marginalization (see Malin and Ryder 2018;Malin, Ryder, and Lyra 2019). Yet, as documented in the related field of science and technology studies (Mascarenhas 2018), environmental sociology, as a whole, pays limited attention to race and racism in the structure of socioenvironmental relations.…”

Addressing Energy Equity in the United States: Policy Considerations for Federal Investment

“…This inequitable distribution of the costs and benefits of the energy system exists against a backdrop of long-standing environmental and economic inequity in the United States, caused by compounding racial, gender, and geographic discrimination and unjust policies throughout the country's history. Such socioeconomic factors are key considerations when designing and implementing federal investment because programming will have to be targeted, designed, and implemented in a way that is responsive and tailored to that context to be effective in different communities (McCauley et al 2013;Healy and Barry 2017;Malin et al 2019;Sovacool 2009;Bouzarovski and Simcock 2017).…”

“…Most often, these inequities are faced by low-income individuals; Black, Latino, Indigenous individuals; and other people of color. This is intertwined with the inequitable sociopolitical context that the energy system operates within, which includes structural and systematic marginalization, alongside ongoing and historic discrimination against these communities that face the greatest hardship (Healy and Barry 2017;McCauley et al 2013;Malin et al 2019;Sovacool 2009;Bouzarovski and Simcock 2017). Addressing this broader context is required to fully address energy inequities.…”

“…Both the U.S. economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and its accelerating transition to a clean energy economy are proceeding against a backdrop of longstanding inequity-built on intersecting racial, ethnic, and gendered discrimination throughout the country's history-driving a compounding inequitable distribution of the costs and benefits of developments in the energy system (Carley and Konisky 2020;McCauley et al 2013;Healy and Barry 2017;Malin et al 2019;Sovacool 2009;Bouzarovski and Simcock 2017).…”