“Unequal Protection: The Racial Divide in Environmental Law”
The National Law Journal, September 21, 1992
I led a team of three reporters in the newspaper’s most ambitious investigative project ever, a computer-assisted project that showed stark disparity in enforcement of environmental laws in white and minority communities.
Our 12-page report led to Congressional hearings, a U.S. Civil Rights Commission probe, and The New York Times credited our work with helping to prompt the Clinton administration’s executive order on environmental justice.
“Unequal Protection” is winner of:
- The George Polk Award
- Scripps-Howard Foundation’s Meeman Award, environmental journalism
- Columbia University’s Tobenkin Award, for achievement in the fight against racial hatred
- Investigative Reporters And Editors Award
- John Bartlow Martin Awards, Second Place, public interest journalism
- National Headliner Awards, Second Place, coverage of major news event
Read excerpts of Unequal Protection.
