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2025 Year-End Report
As we close out this year, we’re proud to share how communities, students, and partners across the Gulf South continued rising to meet extraordinary challenges.
Check out our 2025 Year-End Report!
Championing communities from the fencelines to the frontlines since 1992.
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Founded in 1992, the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice is dedicated to improving the lives of community members of all ages who are harmed by pollution and vulnerable to climate change, through research and policy studies, community and student engagement to impact policy change, and health and safety training for environmental careers.
We are the FIRST Environmental Justice Center in the nation.
We are the FIRST to use GIS mapping to expose environmental racism.
We are the FIRST to bring a Climate Justice Pavilion to the Blue Zone at COP27.
We are the FIRST to develop the EJ Communiversity Model.
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We stand on promises built from community knowledge, tools, and commitment.
We spent this year fighting false climate solutions like carbon capture and empowering residents with actionable data through our Environmental Justice Data Action Portal (EJ DAP), ensuring communities have the ...voice to create their own change.
Your gift today directly supports this 33-year legacy of advocacy in action and fuels our Communiversity Model that can continue to move the work forward for individuals and their neighborhoods in the year ahead.
Visit the link in our bio before December 31st to make your tax-deductible gift.
#EnvironmentalJustice #CommunityAction #DSCEJ #Advocacy #giveback
We stand on promises built from community knowledge, tools, and commitment.
We spent this year fighting false climate solutions like carbon capture and empowering residents with actionable data through our Environmental Justice Data Action Portal (EJ DAP), ensuring communities have the ...voice to create their own change.
Your gift today directly supports this 33-year legacy of advocacy in action and fuels our Communiversity Model that can continue to move the work forward for individuals and their neighborhoods in the year ahead.
Visit www.dscej.org/donate before December 31st to make your tax-deductible gift.
#EnvironmentalJustice #CommunityAction #DSCEJ #Advocacy #giveback
Celebrating a year of Hope, Progress, and Community:
The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice is proud to release our Year-End Report.
Discover powerful stories of resilience from communities, students, and partners across the Gulf South as they confront environmental and ...climate challenges. Read about the collective impact we are making and how your support is helping to safeguard the health and future of our frontline communities.
Find the link to download the full report in our bio!
#EnvironmentalJustice #CommunityResilience #HopeProgressCommunity #GulfSouth #DSCEJ
The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice is proud to release our Year-End Report!
Discover powerful stories of resilience from communities, students, and partners across the Gulf South as they confront environmental and climate challenges. Read about the collective impact we are ...making and how your support is helping to safeguard the health and future of our frontline communities.
P.S. Not on our email list? Sign up and download our report at www.dscej.org
#EnvironmentalJustice #CommunityResilience #HopeProgressCommunity #GulfSouth #DSCEJ
We asked Lawrence Myers III, one of the very first graduates of DSCEJ's Environmental Worker Training Program how it impacted his life and he had much to say:
"I have been able to truly sustain a decent life through this environmental work."
In 1996, Lawrence didn't... know that enrolling in our Worker Training Program would change everything. He didn't know he'd spend the next 20+ years responding to national environmental disasters—the Space Shuttle Columbia recovery, major oil spills, cleanup operations that would take him across the country.
"It can change your life. It truly changes your life."
The accredited certification he earned didn't just open doors to skilled trades and emergency response contracts. It gave him something more valuable: the knowledge to protect his own family. Now he's the one his relatives call when they're worried about lead paint. The one his neighbors trust when they have questions about contamination.
"You feel good knowing you helped someone else out along the way, so you changed someone else's life."
This is the journey from individual success to collective change. 🏡
As environmental threats intensify in fenceline communities, we need more trained responders like Lawrence. We graduate nearly 100 environmental health leaders each year, but in an uncertain funding climate, we need your support to keep building this expertise where it matters most.
Take action. Give hope at www.dscej.org/donate 🌱 The link is in our bio.
#EnvironmentalJustice #CommunityLeadership #STEM #WorkforceDevelopment #EnvironmentalHealth #DSCEJ
We asked Lawrence Myers III, one of the very first graduates of DSCEJ's Environmental Worker Training Program how it impacted his life and he had much to say:
"I have been able to truly sustain a decent life through this environmental work."
In 1996, Lawrence ...didn't know that enrolling in our Worker Training Program would change everything. He didn't know he'd spend the next 20+ years responding to national environmental disasters—the Space Shuttle Columbia recovery, major oil spills, cleanup operations that would take him across the country.
"It can change your life. It truly changes your life."
The accredited certification he earned didn't just open doors to skilled trades and emergency response contracts. It gave him something more valuable: the knowledge to protect his own family. Now he's the one his relatives call when they're worried about lead paint. The one his neighbors trust when they have questions about contamination.
"You feel good knowing you helped someone else out along the way, so you changed someone else's life."
This is the journey from individual success to collective change. 🏡
As environmental threats intensify in fenceline communities, we need more trained responders like Lawrence. We graduate nearly 100 environmental health leaders each year, but in an uncertain funding climate, we need your support to keep building this expertise where it matters most.
Take action. Give hope at www.dscej.org/donate 🌱
#EnvironmentalJustice #CommunityLeadership #STEM #WorkforceDevelopment #EnvironmentalHealth #DSCEJ
College Student Abstracts are due at 11:59 pm tonight for the 11th Annual HBCU Climate Change Conference . That means you STILL have time to submit! ⏰
The form takes about 20 minutes. If your research addresses climate change, just transition, food security, campus sustainability, or any ...environmental justice topic, this is your platform. 🗣️
Don’t miss this prestigious opportunity to present to frontline community residents, industry leaders, and other esteemed EJ professionals.
Last, but not least, compete for cash awards and make connections with people doing the work NATIONWIDE!
Conference deets:
🗓️: March 18 - 22, 2026
📍: Jung Hotel, New Orleans, LA
Submit your abstracts before midnight, and learn more at the link in our bio.
#ClimateJustice #EnvironmentalJustice #StudentResearch #ClimateChange #ClimateResearch #publichealtheducation
Today's the day!
College Student Abstracts are due at 11:59 pm tonight for the 11th Annual HBCU Climate Change Conference . That means you STILL have time to submit! ⏰
The form takes about 20 minutes. If your research addresses climate change, just transition, food ...security, campus sustainability, or any environmental justice topic, this is your p#PublicHealth
Don’t miss this prestigious opportunity to present to frontline community residents, industry leaders, and other esteemed EJ professionals.
Last, but not least, compete for CASH awards and make connections with people doing the work NATIONWIDE! 🏆
Conference deets:
🗓️: March 18 - 22, 2026
📍: Jung Hotel, New Orleans, LA
Submit your abstracts before midnight and learn more about the conference: www.dscej.org/ccc-2026
#ClimateJustice #EnvironmentalJustice #StudentResearch #ClimateChange #ClimateResearch #publichealth
The fight for clean air and safe water is a fight for fundamental human dignity. We believe a safe and healthy environment is a universal human right, not a privilege determined by zip code or race. Join DSCEJ in demanding this right for all communities across the Gulf South.
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