Cumulative impact laws integrate environmental exposures with social determinants of health to measure cumulative risk and burden. To address the overlapping environmental, health, and socioeconomic stressors in overburdened communities, states are increasingly passing cumulative impact laws. Yet, despite increasingly sophisticated tools for measuring and mapping cumulative impact, such frameworks fall short of delivering enforceable legal protections for communities. This leaves critical gaps between documentation and remediation of harm. Join legal scholars, policymakers, and public health advocates for a timely discussion of innovative strategies to develop durable legal protections for communities and to advance environmental and health justice.

Speakers

• Mustafa Santiago Ali, Executive Vice President, National Wildlife Federation
• Vicki Arroyo, Professor from Practice, Georgetown Law
• Yael Cannon, Associate Director of the Urban Institute–Georgetown Law Project on Health Equity and the Law; Professor of Law and Director of the Health Justice Alliance Law Clinic, Georgetown Law
• Sheila Foster, Professor of Climate, Columbia Climate School; Faculty Member, Columbia Law
• Charles Lee, Visiting Scholar, Environmental and Climate Justice Center, Howard Law
• Brian Smedley, Senior Fellow, Health Policy Division, Urban Institute

The Urban Institute–Georgetown Law Series on Health Justice features conversations among researchers, policymakers, lawyers, health care professionals, and community advocates to develop innovative strategies for advancing health justice. Visit the project website to learn more about this joint initiative and to view past recordings.

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