I Met Bob Bullard In His Ice-box of a corner office at Texas Southern University, where he is the dean of the School of Public Affairs. Outside of his building, in Houston's predominantly AfricanAmericanThirdWard, kitchen workers on lunch breaks clustered under trees in search of relief from the red-hot sun. Bullard's window overlooked a bank of solar panels that kept the building's air conditioners churn- ing; just beyond, a formidable security fence ringed the campus. Such incongruities are not lost on Bullard: they're his stock-in-trade. In recent years, Newsweek named him one of 13 Environmental Leaders of the Century and Grist dubbed him the "father of environmental justice"-the movement that seeks to make sure environmental laws and regulations are being enforced free of any racial, ethnic, or socio-economic discrimination.
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