Announcing “Coastal Justice: Lessons from the Frontlines” in George Washington Journal of Energy & Environmental Law
For Immediate Release
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Media Contacts
Betsy López-Wagner, López-Wagner Strategies, betsy@equitablecomms.com
Lucila Garcia, López-Wagner Strategies, Lucila@equitablecomms.com
Announcing “Coastal Justice: Lessons from the Frontlines” in George Washington Journal of Energy & Environmental Law
The 18-page peer-reviewed article, co-authored by Azul’s Founder and Executive Director, published in the Journal’s Vol. 14, Issue No. 2
WASHINGTON, DC – Azul is announcing Coastal Justice: Lessons from the Frontlines, co-authored by Marce Gutierrez-Graudiņš, the organization’s Founder and Executive Director, with Gregg P. Macey, Director of the Center for Land, Environment, and Natural Resources at UC Irvine School of Law, has been published in George Washington Journal of Energy & Environmental Law (JEEL) Volume 14, No. 2.
The 18-page article’s abstract begins by acknowledging the unprecedented opportunity and lessons learned from the frontlines of the movement for coastal justice:
“Dual commitments to equity and conservation—such as federal and state 30×30 programs — present an unprecedented opportunity to adjust thresholds for responsible governance and the extent to which the environmental justice movement continues to rely upon the state. This Article is the first to render such an adjustment, drawing on over a decade of work by a leading coastal justice organization to accommodate conservation, environmental, and racial justice thresholds, mandates, and requirements.”
Azul celebrates Gutierrez-Graudiņš and her ocean justice and marine conservation leadership.
Read the JEEL article in its entirety, here.
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Azul, a Latinx-led and serving grassroots environmental justice organization, continues to be the only U.S. ocean conservation organization in the nation to focus specifically in working with Latinx communities to protect the ocean and coasts.