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The Project on American Environmental Justice Politics, Policy, and Ethics is focused on uncovering ecological injustices in the United States accentuated by the rise of neo-liberalism and corporate-led globalization. People of color and working class communities traditionally relegated to the periphery of the environmental movement are now challenging the wholesale depredation of their land, water, air, and community health. Our work is focused on a number of major political, policy, and ethical challenges confronting the EJ. These challenges include moving beyond approaches aimed at ending the unequal distribution of environmental problems (distributional justice) to address the political-economic structures that produce the environmental problems in the first place (productive justice) to invent a more transformative political ecology.