Richard Marcantonio

February 11, 2014 By Richard Marcantonio Twenty years after President Clinton signed Executive Order 12898, many environmental justice advocates are dissatisfied. The Clinton Executive Order [...]

January 17, 2014 By Richard Marcantonio In my last blog, I talked about planning as an important form of law-making. Here, I turn to the question of why it’s also an important frontier in today’s [...]

December 16, 2013 By Richard Marcantonio I’ve been asked more than once why, as a civil rights lawyer, I spend so much time working with community groups to affect the outcome and implementation [...]

November 12, 2013 By Richard Marcantonio  Civil rights and environmental justice laws ensure that low-income communities and minority populations share fairly in the benefits of public policy and [...]

July 11, 2013 By Richard Marcantonio  Judging by the avalanche of news reports and tweets about the BART strike last week, you might think that transportation woes only affect commuters trying to [...]