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This is a convincing and timely assessment of an important, but troubled, federal initiative. Twenty years after a landmark presidential executive order, environmental justice policy effectiveness remains disappointing. Success is possible only if both citizens and policymakers absorb the lessons in this sympathetic but tough-minded book. -- Christopher H. Foreman, Jr., Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland; Nonresident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution; author of The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice What happens when you win? This important volume notes how environmental justice activism and scholarship put the issues of disproportionate exposures by race and income squarely on the federal agenda -- and how that agenda was often fumbled in the face of legal issues, bureaucratic obstacles, political resistance, and even an inability to crisply define an environmental justice community. Offering a unique account of the evolution of federal environmental justice policy -- and a first-rate analysis of different aspects of that policy, including in the realms of the economy, the courts, and public participation -- this is an overdue and very welcome addition to the literature. -- Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity, and Director of Program for Environmental and Regional Equity, University of Southern California

About the Author

David M. Konisky is Associate Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the coeditor of Failed Promises- Evaluating the Federal Government's Response to Environmental Justice (MIT Press).

David M. Konisky is Associate Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the coeditor of Failed Promises- Evaluating the Federal Government's Response to Environmental Justice (MIT Press).

David M. Konisky is Associate Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the coeditor of Failed Promises- Evaluating the Federal Government's Response to Environmental Justice (MIT Press).

David M. Konisky is Associate Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the coeditor of Failed Promises- Evaluating the Federal Government's Response to Environmental Justice (MIT Press).