While stepping into a new era with the Duke Climate Commitment, Duke also looks back on a long state history of environmental justice advocacy and the injustices that necessitate it. In 2022-2023, two Bass Connections teams, Environmental Justice, Climate Change and Community Engagement and Collecting Oral Histories of Environmental Racism and Injustice, are building on 40 years of activism and research to further shed light on environmental racism and advocate for environmental justice in North Carolina and beyond.

Read more about these two teams and the work they're doing this year.