NY State Climate Justice Working Group

Positives

• This article is well-organized and easy to understand.
• This article provides students with positive information regarding climate change legislation.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Under the article, there is an archive of this group's past meetings.
• It may help students to have an intermediate understanding of environmental injustice/racism.
• Students should understand how air pollution impacts health.

Differentiation

• Students can use this article for a research project on efforts to fight environmental injustice in the United States.
• Language arts students can write informative pieces to explain environmental injustice.
• This article can enhance a classroom discussion on groups that have dealt with environmental injustice and why this injustice occurred in the first place.
• Students can research the Clean Air Act and other forms of environmental legislation.
• After reading this article, history students can do more research to create a timeline of historical events that have contributed to the current circumstances of environmental racism and injustice.