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Will Lawmakers Sacrifice Our Health and Safety to Get a Debt Ceiling Deal?

Climate|October 16, 2024

Meridith Kohut/The New York Times
Meridith Kohut/The New York Times

Last May, RFF Associate Director Larry Shapiro and Dr. Robert Bullard co-authored an Op-Ed in The New York Times urging lawmakers to include environmental protections for marginalized communities in the debt ceiling deal. 

Dr. Robert D. Bullard, Ph.D. is founding director of the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice and distinguished professor of urban planning and environmental policy at Texas Southern University.