Publications & Media

A collection of articles, videos, journal publications, statements, and legal updates highlighting our work and impact.

Recent Publications

Listen to Kansas Citians before raising our utility rates for data centers

A Kansas City data center is one of the first in the nation to get a clean energy loan

Triunfo ambiental en Kansas: residentes de Armourdale lograron frenar la instalación una planta de residuos químicos

Triunfo ambiental en Kansas: residentes de Armourdale lograron frenar la instalación una planta de residuos químicos

Global recycling firm nixes industrial waste plant in historic Kansas City neighborhood

Powering Armourdale’s Future A Community Story of Clean Energy and Resilience

Community Victory: Reworld Withdraws Application for Material Processing Facility in Armourdale

Una comunidad en Kansas City se opone a la instalación de una planta de residuos químicos

Una comunidad en Kansas City se opone a la instalación de una planta de residuos químicos

Collectrify: Learning Community Collaboratory

Armourdale residents tired of delays, demand answers on waste facility proposed for neighborhood

Wyandotte County industrial waste plant could get a vote without expected public meetings

Chemical Recyling
Triunfo ambiental en Kansas: residentes de Armourdale lograron frenar la instalación una planta de residuos químicos

Triunfo ambiental en Kansas: residentes de Armourdale lograron frenar la instalación una planta de residuos químicos

January 9, 2026
Global recycling firm nixes industrial waste plant in historic Kansas City neighborhood

December 12, 2025

Community Victory: Reworld Withdraws Application for Material Processing Facility in Armourdale

December 1, 2025
Una comunidad en Kansas City se opone a la instalación de una planta de residuos químicos

Una comunidad en Kansas City se opone a la instalación de una planta de residuos químicos

October 17, 2025
Armourdale residents tired of delays, demand answers on waste facility proposed for neighborhood

September 9, 2025
Wyandotte County industrial waste plant could get a vote without expected public meetings

September 8, 2025

Promoting Earth Podcast

August 24, 2025
KCKs activist fight global companys plan for industrial waste recycling facility

August 23, 2025
Clean Air

How Rise4EJ Is Fighting For Clean Air in Kansas City

July 14, 2025

Wyandotte County Health Equity Task Force: Building ‘Clean Air Boxes’ at Grant Elementary School in KCK

June 14, 2022
Officials wouldn’t make sure Kansas City, Kansas’ air was safe to breathe

August 8, 2021
Climate and Energy
Listen to Kansas Citians before raising our utility rates for data centers

January 15, 2026
A Kansas City data center is one of the first in the nation to get a clean energy loan

January 15, 2026

Powering Armourdale’s Future A Community Story of Clean Energy and Resilience

December 1, 2025

Collectrify: Learning Community Collaboratory

October 1, 2025

Visioning Armourdale’s Affordable Energy Future

Visioning Armourdale’s Affordable Energy Future Technical Appendix

September 1, 2025
WYCO utility raises electric and water bill despite resident’s frustration

July 23, 2023
Statement by Environmental Justice Organizations on the National Symposium on Climate Justice & Carbon Management

Statement by Environmental Justice Organizations on the National Symposium on Climate Justice & Carbon Management

June 7, 2023
Second KU-led Global Climate Teach-in offers local perspectives to worldwide event

March 21, 2023

What’s Up Kansas City: Interview with Beto Lugo Climate Justice Radio

August 5, 2022

January 20, 2022
Cumulative Impacts

The Community Guide to Cumulative Impacts

October 16, 2024
Environmental Injustice: Cumulative Impacts in Kansas City

September 21, 2022
EJ in Kansas City

Vecinos KC LEADS Environmental Action Plan

June 1, 2025

Environmental justice in KCs most vulnerable communities

May 16, 2024

Justice40rward Kansas City Tour with CleanAirNow

January 9, 2024
History of Hispanic settlement environmental injustice in KCK

October 30, 2023

Environmental Justice Analysis in Armourdale

August 15, 2023
A Toxic Tour Helps Convey What Fenceline Communities Experience

May 19, 2023

Te lo cuento conversacciones con beto

May 10, 2023

My World Too: Heritage, Hybrid, GMO Seeds

April 16, 2023
Joint efforts to combat environmental injustice in KC provides funding and awareness, leaves EPA investigating

April 13, 2023
Environmental Injustice in Kansas City

February 26, 2023
Environmental Health
HIP: The Five Dimensions Guide

April 30, 2025

Assessing environmental injustice in Kansas City by linking paediatric asthma to local sources of pollution: a cross-sectional study

July 17, 2024
APHA Building Trust-Based Community Partnerships for Public Health Professionals

July 1, 2023

Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania: Interview with Beto

November 29, 2022

Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments Spotlight: Atenas Mena

May 19, 2022
Federal Policy

Environmental Justice: 30 Years of Federal Focus

August 15, 2023
Enviornmental Justice Act for All Letter of Support

February 15, 2022
Environmental Justice for All Act Support Letter

February 8, 2022
Street Science
From the Streets to the StoryMap: Putting Kansas City Youth at the Center of Environmental Justice

August 27, 2025

Street Science Institute Storymap

February 25, 2025
Transportation
EPA, Do the Right Thing on Truck Pollution

December 14, 2022
USPS Lawsuit

April 28, 2022
Meet the Organizations Fighting for Zero-Emissions Freight

April 27, 2022