CLiME embarks on the new academic year with an expansion of staff (see below) and with more full-time opportunities to fill (see below). Exciting new research projects include:
What To Do memos for public education about common legal problems;
Analysis of the disparate climate risks facing low-income neighborhoods;
Modeling affordable housing development across New Jersey municipalities;
Remedies for public health disparities;
Regulating corporate home buying;
A first-time collaboration with the City of Newark over data analysis
and more!
New CLiME Releases
Losing Ground:
The 2020 Displacement Risk Indicators Matrix (D.R.I.M) Update for Newark
Newark rents continue to rise across the city, unaccompanied by rising incomes, in trends we document by ward and, for the first time, neighborhoods in the third edition CLiME's displacement risk index.
This analysis by CLiME Fellow, Zachary Aboff, investigates the available legal remedies for residents of Newark’s Ironbound and similarly positioned communities that could be used to halt or possibly reverse the concentrating of pollution sources in their neighborhoods. After reviewing the myriad health harms concentrated in minority urban neighborhoods and the history of Environmental Justice (EJ) litigation under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, this best-in-class student paper argues for alternative advocacy strategies. Through a combination of policy changes and the use of hybridized legal schemes not typically associated with environmental law, the Ironbound may yet find relief from the asthma epidemic which has so far been unaddressed. These strategies include i) Empowering the EPA’s Office of Civil Rights, ii) Seeking State & Local Protection, iii) Claims under The Takings Clause and iv) Blending Environmental Justice and Disability Law.
