A former working group of EDGI and now independent, the Environmental Historians Action Collaborative (EHAC) is a community of historians working to bring the insights and skills of environmental history to bear on the major environmental, climate, and political crises of our time.
As an EDGI working group, EHAC participated in current debates through special reports and public commentary, promoted conversations among historians and history educators about environmental crises, and amplified existing research and pedagogy for a wider audience.
Interested historians should contact Emily Pawley (pawleye at dickinson dot edu).
Op-Eds
Emily Pawley, “Pennsylvania Water is not What it Used to Be,” Penn Live Patriot-News, October 23, 2020.
Keith Pluymers, Sarah Lamdan, and Christopher Sellers, “The Supreme Court’s Environmental Legacy was Tarnished Even Before Barrett,” Syndicated by Augusta Free Press, Canton Daily Ledger, Southeast Texas Record, Jewish Journal, Orlando Weekly, and The East County Californian, October 21, 2020 and November 6, 2020.
Josiah Rector and Christopher Sellers, “For Labor Day, Honor Workers by Keeping them Alive,” USA Today, September 7, 2020.
Jay Turner and Emily Pawley, “Trump’s Most Ambitious Roll-Back Yet,” Globe-Post, January 21, 2020.
Events
EHAC is co-organizing “The Climate Crisis: Early Americanists Respond” a workshop with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, June 16-17 2022. Proposals are due March 1st and our call for papers is here.
EHAC will present a panel “Teaching the Climate Crisis” on March 24, 2022 8:30-10:00 am at the annual meeting of the American Society for Environmental History.
EHAC organized “Turning Environmental History into Action” a panel for Environmental History Week, 2021.
Public Comments
EDGI/EHAC submitted a public comment critiquing proposed rule changes to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by the Trump CEQ in March 2020.
Annotations
Joe Biden’s Clean Energy Plan Speech–Annotated (July 2020)
Remarks by President Trump on NEPA Regulations–Annotated (January 2020)
Remarks by President Trump on America’s Environmental Leadership–Annotated (November 2020)