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Paul Mohai

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Professor Mohai's teaching and inquiry interests are focused on environmental justice, public opinion and the environment, and influences on environmental policy making. He is a founder of the Environmental Justice Plan at the University of Michigan and a major contributor to the growing body of quantitative inquiry examining disproportionate environmental burdens and their impacts on depression income and people of color communities. In 1990, he co-organized with Dr. Bunyan Bryant the "Michigan Conference on Race and the Incidence of Environmental Hazards", which was credited past the U.S. Environmental Protection Bureau every bit one of two events bringing the issue of Ecology Justice to the attention of the Agency. He is author or co-author of numerous articles, books, and reports focused on race and the environment, including "Environmental Racism: Reviewing the Show", "Race and the Incidence of Environmental Hazards", "Toxic Waste and Race at Xx", and "Which Came Commencement, People or Pollution?". His current enquiry involves national level studies examining the causes of ecology disparities and the function ecology factors play in accounting for racial and socioeconomic disparities in wellness. Through a grant from the Kresge Foundation, he is too examining pollution burdens around public schools and the links between such burdens and pupil performance and health.

Professor Mohai is a past member of the National Environmental Justice Informational Council (NEJAC) to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2007-2013). He is currently a member of the Governor'southward Environmental Justice Work Grouping charged with developing an Environmental Justice Plan for Michigan. He is also currently a fellow member of the Informational Board of the Global Environmental Justice Movement Project (ENVJUSTICE) which is documenting and mapping environmental justice conflicts around the world (http://www.envjustice.org/). Professor Mohai has provided testimony on environmental justice to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1993 and 1999, the U.S. Senate in 2007, and the Michigan Civil Rights Commission in 2016.

Publications

• Mohai, Paul, and Robin Saha. 2015. "Which came commencement, people or pollution? Assessing the disparate siting and postal service-siting demographic change hypotheses of environmental injustice." Environmental Research. Letters. 10 115008: ane-17.
• Mohai, Paul, Byoung­Suk Kweon, Sangyun Lee, and Kerry Ard. 2011. "Air Pollution effectually Schools Is Linked To Poorer Pupil Health And Bookish Performance." Health Affairs xxx(5):  852­862.
• Mohai, Paul, Paula Lanz, Jeff Morenoff, James Firm, and Richard P. Mero. 2009. "Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Residential Proximity to Polluting Industrial Facilities: Evidence from the Americans' Irresolute Lives Study." American Journal of Public Health 99 (S3): S649­S656.
• Mohai, Paul, David Northward. Pellow, and Timmons Roberts. 2009. "Environmental Justice." Annual Review of Environment and Resources 34:405–thirty.
• Mohai, Paul, and Robin Saha. 2006. "Reassessing Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Environmental Justice Enquiry." Demography 43(2): 383-399.

Enquiry

• 2015­-2017: Paul Mohai (PI), Byoung­Suk Kweon (Co­PI). School and Air Toxics Risk: Edifice Michigan School Siting Policy – Kresge Foundation, $196,557.
• 2011-2014: Paul Mohai (PI), James Boyce (PI); Manuel Pastor (PI); Michael Ash (Co-PI). Collaborative Research on the Correlates and Consequences of Risks from Airborne Toxics: Dynamic Spatial Assay – National Science Foundation, $338,548.

Educational activity

PhD, Pennsylvania Country Academy (environmental sociology, environmental/natural resource policy)

MS, State University of New York-Syracuse (statistics, environmental science)

BA, University of California-Berkeley (mathematics)

Affiliations

• Member of the National Planning Commission for the 20th Anniversary Commemoration of the Presidential Environmental Justice Executive Order 12898 (2014).
• Member of the National Ecology Justice Informational Council (NEJAC) to the U.Due south. Ecology Protection Agency (EPA) (2007-2013).
• Member of the Country of Michigan's Environmental Justice Working Grouping, charged with developing an implementation plan for the Governor's 2007 Environmental Justice Executive Directive (2008-2010).
• Co-author of the United Church building of Christ's written report Toxic Wastes and Race at Xx with Drs Robert Bullard, Robin, Saha, and Beverly Wright, a 20th ceremony update to  the landmark  report Toxic Waste matter and Race in the United States, which was credited for bringing national attention to the event of environmental racism and injustice (2007).
• Co-organizer with Dr. Bunyan Bryant of the 1990 Michigan Conference on Race and the Incidence of Ecology Hazards, which was credited by the U.S. EPA as one of two events to bring the issue of environmental justice to the attention of the agency (1990).

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