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At a time when communities need bold leadership more than ever, this conference is where solutions take root.
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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.
Environmental Justice Data Action Portal
Every Zip code reveals a story about
environmental burden.
Find yours.
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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