Michael Ash, associate professor of economics and public policy, is the co-principal investigator for a $360,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study environmental justice in the United States.
Ash and co-PI James Boyce (professor of economics) are co-directors of the Corporate Toxics Information Project at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) and will use the grant to employ EPA data for better understanding socioeconomic and geographic exposure to industrial toxic releases in the U.S.
Additional information about the grant is available through the UMass press release and additional information about the Corporate Toxics Information Project is available at the PERI website.