The ghosts of pollution past and specter of pollution future both lurk over the state’s waterways.

Work to remove the toxic sediment from what has been called "America's biggest crime scene" has been delayed for over 40 years, but it is still unclear who will pay for the river’s full remediation.

Watch the full recording of Climate Desk Live, the Tishman Environment and Design Center’s 2026 Climate Week keynote event at The New School, presented in collaboration with Mother Jones, Capital B News, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The program opens with a special fireside chat featuring New York City Mayor Mamdani in conversation with Mother Jones correspondent Garrison Hayes, discussing affordability, environmental justice, extreme weather, and what it means to build a city where everyone can thrive. Across three dynamic panel conversations, community leaders, mayors, scientists, researchers, and journalists then examine the collision of hyperscaled disruptive technology, technology, energy, and democracy; the rapid expansion of AI data centers; the legacy of nuclear weapons; the toll of these developments on Indigenous communities, communities of color, and rural areas; and the affordability crisis and what it will take for everyday people to build power and shape real solutions. Together, these conversations ask a larger question: How do communities organize and build power within democratic structures when government and industry leave them behind? 📌 FIRESIDE CHAT The Honorable Zohran Kwame Mamdani, Mayor, New York, NY - https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office Garrison Hayes, Correspondent, Mother Jones - https://www.motherjones.com/ 📌 AI’S HIDDEN TOLL LaTricea Adams, Young, Gifted & Green - https://www.younggiftedgreen.org/ Manish Bapna, Natural Resources Defense Council - https://www.nrdc.org/ The Honorable Kate Gallego, Mayor, Phoenix, AZ - https://www.phoenix.gov/administration/mayor.html 📌 NUCLEAR LEGACY: MAPPING LOCAL IMPACTS Lilly Adams, Co-Creator, U.S. Nuclear Impacts Map Moñeka De Oro, Micronesia Climate Change Alliance - https://www.mccalliance.org/ Leona Morgan, Diné No Nukes - https://www.dinenonukes.org/radiation-monitoring-project/ 📌 POWER IN OUR HANDS: SOLUTIONS FOR AN AFFORDABLE, JUST FUTURE Dr. Ana Isabel Baptista, Tishman Environment & Design Center, The New School - http://www.tishmancenter.org Dr. Gretchen Goldman, Union of Concerned Scientists - https://www.ucs.org/ Bill McKibben, Third Act & 350.org - https://thirdact.org/ - https://350.org/ The Honorable Michelle Wu, Mayor, Boston, MA - https://www.boston.gov/departments/mayors-office/michelle-wu 📌 MODERATED BY Garrison Hayes, Mother Jones - https://www.motherjones.com/ Sharon Weinberger, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - https://thebulletin.org/ Adam Mahoney, Capital B - https://capitalbnews.org/ 📌 CULTURAL SPOTLIGHT Etienne Charles, Culture Shock Music Inc. - https://www.etiennecharles.com/home Funmi Sofola, Dancer, Culture Shock Music Inc. - https://funmisofola.com/ Russell Hall, Bass - https://www.russellhallbass.com/ Eljon Wardally, Poet - https://eljonwardally.squarespace.com/ 📌 CHANGEMAKER SPONSOR Isabel González Whitaker, AVP, Moms Clean Air Force - https://www.momscleanairforce.org/ Learn more about the Tishman Environment and Design Center - https://tishmancenter.org #climateweeknyc #ClimateDeskLive #ClimateJustice #EnvironmentalJustice #AI #Energy #Democracy #ClimateChange

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This report, co-published with the Robert D. Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice, contextualizes and charts the second Trump Administration’s efforts to eliminate federal environmenta...

The Polluters Pay Act would shift $50 billion in climate costs from New Jersey families to the corporations responsible for the damage, without raising gas prices.

Please help us celebrate our 20th anniversary and enjoy this short commemorative video! - Earth Day is a reminder that climate justice is shaped through relationships, partnerships, and collective power. It is not built alone. For 20 years, the Tishman Environment & Design Center has worked alongside community leaders, academic partners, organizers, artists, and institutions to build solutions that are rooted in justice and led by those most impacted. As we reflect on this milestone, we recommit to the next 20 years of nurturing communities of practice and advancing climate and environmental justice together Watch how our partners are shaping this work. 🔗 SHARE THIS VIDEO: bit.ly/Tishman20Video 🔗 INVEST IN THIS WORK: bit.ly/SupportTishmanCenter 🔗 SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER: bit.ly/tishmancenterconnect #TishmanCenter20 #EJDisruptDesign #CenteringJustice #ClimateJustice #EnvironmentalJustice - In order of appearance: Stephanie Gidigbi Jenkins, Communities First Fund, Washington D.C.; Kailea Loften, Loam Publishing, CA, and Tishman Center EJ Fellow; Dwaign Tyndal, Alternatives for Community and Environment, Roxbury, MA, and Tishman Center EJ Fellow; Moñeka De Oro, Micronesia Climate Change Alliance, Guåhan, and Tishman Center EJ Fellow; Maria Lopez-Nuñez, Agency, FL, and Tishman Center EJ Fellow; Jesús Vázquez, Organización Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica de Puerto Rico, Borikén, and Tishman Center EJ Fellow; U.S. Rep. Adelita S. Grijalva, Arizona’s 7th District, AZ; Alexandria McBride, Hope Theory Advisors, GA; Rami Dinnawi, North Star Fund, NY, and Tishman Advisory Committee; Denise Abdul-Rahman, Black Sun Light Sustainability, IN, and Tishman Center EJ Fellow; Dr. Manuel Pastor, USC Equity Research Institute, CA; Peggy Shepard, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, NY; Rahwa Ghirmatzion, Agency, NY, and Tishman Center EJ Fellow; Maggie Drummond-Bahl, Northlight Foundation, NY; Kimberly T. Middleton, Tides Foundation's WE LEAD, CA; Michelle DePass, Marin Community Foundation, CA, and Tishman Advisory Committee; Melissa Miles, New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance, Newark, NJ, and Tishman Center EJ Fellow; Dr. Beverly Wright, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, LA; Andrea Mercado, The Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund, Washington, D.C.; Abigail Dillen, Earthjustice, NY; Jacqui Patterson, The Chisholm Legacy Project, MD, and Tishman Advisory Committee; Sheila Babauta, Community Solutions, Saipan, and Tishman Center EJ Fellow; Dr. P. Qasimah Boston, Tallahassee Food Network, FL and Tishman Center EJ Fellow; Yari Helfeld & Julio Morales, Y no había luz, Borikén, Puerto Rico and Tishman Center EJ Fellow; Dr. Ana Baptista, Director, Tishman Environment & Design Center, and Associate Professor at The New School. Learn more: tishmancenter.org