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[https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero](https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ero)  \nRescuing STEM: Environmental Racism, Industrialism, and Education  \nEbony O. McGee  \nSchool of Education, Johns Hopkins University  \nThis paper argues that environmental racism is a constitutive feature of modern science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) industries, rooted in a historical system of racial capitalism that exploits marginalized communities and environments for profit. It demonstrates how a STEM education characterized by technocratic Eurocentric curricula perpetuates this system by producing ethically disengaged professionals. To challenge this complicity, this paper calls for a radical transformation of STEM culture and pedagogy. It proposes actionable strategies to decolonize STEM, including the establishment of an independent truth and reckoning commission, the adoption of fugitive-inspired and Afrofuturist pedagogies, and a foundational commitment to equity ethics. These recommendations aim to dismantle extractive practices andreorient STEM toward the paramount goals of justice, ecological repair, and liberation.  \nKeywords: higher education, diversity, equity, ethics, cultural analysis, environmental racism, STEM education, racial capitalism, decolonizing STEM industrialization, racial activism in STEM  \nIntroduction  \nThe 2024 presidential election marked a turning point not only for the United States but also for the planet. Project 2025, the agenda currently shaping federal policy, includes specific actions for curbing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA, per Project 2025, is described as a“‘coercive’ agency, full of embedded activists” (Global Project Against Hate and Extremism [GPAHE], 2024) . Project 2025 refers to environmentalism as a “pseudo-religion meant to baptize liberals’ ruthless pursuit of absolute power in the holy water of environmental virtue”(GPAHE, 2024) . It calls for pro–fossil fuel policies that will have a deep, negative impact on climate change. Paradoxically, Project 2025 states that measures to protect the environment harm the “aged, poor, and vulnerable” (GPAHE, 2024) . Nothing could be further from the truth, because environmental degradation affects these populations the most. Poor and marginalized people, especially minoritized ethnic and racial groups, bear the brunt of environmental harms (Miles, Schindel, & Haq, 2025) . This systemic targeting of marginalized communities is widely recognized as environmental racism (e.g., Bullard, 1993a, 1993b; Holifield, 2001; Hossain, 2023) . Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) industries and educational systems often prepare their workforce to play a central role in thereproduction of environmental racism. Reimagining STEM education through a lens of equity, justice, and environmental responsibility can offer a pathway forward.  \nConsider these examples: There are more than 500 abandoned uranium mines near the Navajo Nation that have severely contaminated the environment, resulting in increased risks of cancer, kidney disease, and other health issues (Environmental Protection Agency, 2024) . In the St. Gabriel Parish near Plaquemine, Louisiana, 67% of the population identifies as African American or Black (U.S. Census Bureau, 2021). The predominantly Black communities along the stretch of the Mississippi River spanning the area from Baton Rouge to New Orleans live in a region known as“Death Alley” because of the impact of pollutants (Baurick et al., 2019; Juhasz, 2019). Along this strip, there are more than 120 chemical plants in a distance spanning less than 90 miles. Some towns have all but disappeared because of pollution. Morrisonville, a town founded following","cbCaitvEco2z3TrO","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitvEco2z3TrO","pdf",477561,13,"English","# Introduction\n## Environmental racism and policy context (Project 2025)\n## Case examples of environmental harm\n## Evidence linking siting and racialized housing maps\n## Implications for STEM education","[{\"question\":\"What does the paper claim about environmental racism in STEM industries?\",\"answer\":\"Environmental racism is argued to be constitutive of modern STEM industries, rooted in historical racial capitalism that exploits marginalized communities and environments for profit.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper say STEM education can perpetuate environmental racism?\",\"answer\":\"It contends that technocratic Eurocentric curricula produce ethically disengaged professionals, thereby reproducing the system behind environmental racism.\"},{\"question\":\"What strategies does the paper propose to challenge this complicity?\",\"answer\":\"It calls for decolonizing STEM through an independent truth and reckoning commission, fugitive-inspired and Afrofuturist pedagogies, and a foundational commitment to equity ethics.\"}]","Rescuing STEM - Environmental Racism, Industrialism, and Education | PDF",1792069279,33]