The 2021 Institute for Global Understanding Biennial Symposium focusing on Human Rights and the Environment featured Mayah’s Lot on the Environmental Justice panel. You can watch the panel from this link. https://www.monmouth.edu/igu/symposium/
Join Mayah and Bina as they learn about the Census in CUER’s new coloring book We All Count. This project is part of the Environmental Justice Chronicles, CUER’s ongoing collaboration with artist Charlie LaGreca. Also, be…
As part of its Maya’s Lot series, CUER’s latest work with artist Charlie Lagreca takes readers inside why the Census process is integral to our rights – and dispels misconceptions around whether participation in the Census puts data or undocumented people at risk (it doesn’t!).
In Fall 2018, the Center for Urban Environmental Reform co-hosted a day-long conference titled Separating Facts from Fake News: Environmental FOIA in the Trump Era. The conference featured panels of environmental journalists and environmental law and…
The Eastern Queens Alliance recently honored CUER Director Rebecca Bratspies at its annual Idlewild Wetland and Wildlife Benefit and Award Luncheon. This year’s theme, “Our Communities Matter,” resonated throughout the afternoon, as community activists discussed a…
CUER filed official comments raising serious objections to the Port Authority’s plan to abandon its Clean Truck Plan, the ambitious plan that would have dramatically reduced air pollution across the region. CUER alleged: “the Port Authority’s…
The Environmental Protection Agency finalized new ground-level ozone regulations October 1, bringing the standard closer to what is necessary to protect human health, but still to weak in the eyes of many environmental and public health…
On behalf of the CUNY Center for Urban Environmental Reform, CUER Fellows Andy Jones and Ethan Middlebrooks recently submitted comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on the Rockaway Delivery Lateral…