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Dianne See Morrison, MFA

Dianne See Morrison is a freelance writer.

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TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO, Charles Lee, a life-long social advocate and current head of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Office of Environmental Justice, presented a report at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. A photograph of the event shows him at an unadorned podium, a young, bespectacled man flanked by leaders from the United Church of Christ's Commission for Racial Justice, earnestly detailing his findings. At the time, Lee says he believed the groundbreaking study would have an impact, but perhaps in fifty years time. He couldn't imagine the . . . [Full Text]