Miami Law's Environmental Justice Clinic
Higher Education - Coral Gables, Florida, United States
Miami Law's Environmental Justice Clinic Employees
Miami Law's Environmental Justice Clinic Details
The Environmental Justice Clinic provides rights education, interdisciplinary research, policy resources, and advocacy and transactional assistance to underserved low-and-moderate-income communities in the contexts of the built and natural environment across the fields of civil rights, environmental protection, poverty law, and public health.At UM, the Clinic collaborates with the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy, Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, School of Communication, School of Education & Human Development, and the School of Medicine's Graduate Program in Public Health. Clinic highlights include advancing state and federal class action lawsuits in, respectively, Styles v. City of Miami ("Old Smokey") and Miller v. City of Fort Myers to clean up and/or monitor the health effects of toxic dumpsites in low-income communities of color in Miami and Fort Meyers. The Clinic also is conducting investigations of municipal practices that displace inner-city tenants and homeowners, perpetuate segregation, potentially violate fair housing laws, and impair the health and well-being of low-income communities in Miami.
