This team works to secure the rights of youth to a safe and healthy climate. In partnership with Our Children’s Trust, this team is working on a youth-led constitutional and climate rights lawsuit in Florida to secure fundamental rights guaranteed by the Florida Constitution.
This team works in coalition with Miami Waterkeeper, Everglades Law Center, and PEER Group to address the impacts of stormwater pollution and violations of the Clean Water Act in Miami-Dade County. The EJC supports the coalition with litigation, education, and community outreach.
This is a class action lawsuit on behalf of residents and property owners in West Coconut Grove who were subjected to decades of toxic ash and pollution from a waste incinerator operated by the City of Miami. The EJC works with lead counsel in seeking medical monitoring for exposed residents and compensation for property damage and personal injuries.
Extreme heat has become a life-or-death issue for outdoor workers in South Florida, and a health and livability issue for historically-segregated communities. The heat justice team works to mitigate the impacts of heat on these groups and for heat-related infrastructure that advances a just climate transition.
Through policy campaigns and interdisciplinary research, resources, and tools, this team works closely with Struggle for Miami's Affordable and Sustainable Housing (SMASH) to ensure that housing is a human right. Check out one of our tools, the Displacement Vulnerability and Mitigation Tool, here.
Working alongside community partners, this team seeks to secure affordable, available, healthy, and accessible food and ensure access to green spaces. This team seeks to implement the human right to food by identifying barriers that undermine food security and collaborating on innovative solutions and policies to transform food systems in South Florida. And collaborating closely with the Overtown community, this team also aims to improve the quality of Overtown’s public parks and provides legal research and advocacy to its partners Urban Health Partnerships, Overtown Children & Youth Coalition, and Catalyst Miami.
The Environmental Justice Clinic’s prior projects include:
Please contact environmentaljusticeclinic@law.miami.edu about the EJC and its current or past projects.
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