{"id":7737,"date":"2018-09-25T20:18:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T20:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/?p=7737"},"modified":"2018-09-25T20:18:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T20:18:49","slug":"dr-nicky-sheats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pearson.immtcnj.com\/wordpress\/2018\/09\/dr-nicky-sheats\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Nicky Sheats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Nicky Sheats is the current director of the Center for the Urban Environment at the John S. Watson Institute for public policy of Thomas Edison State College located in Trenton, New Jersey. \u00a0Dr. Sheats defined the main mission of the Center for the Urban Environment as \u201cproviding support for New Jersey\u2019s Environmental justice community\u201d. Dr. Sheats graduated from Harvard Law School, and then decided to go back and work to receive his PhD in biogeochemistry. \u00a0In addition, Dr. Sheats helped in the formation of the New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance and has been an active board member since the year 2003. He is also on the EPA\u2019s Clean Air Act Advisory Committee, <\/span>and was a member of the School Air Toxics Working Group of the National EJ Advisory Council.<\/span> \u00a0Throughout his career, Dr. Sheats has been very involved in the creation and writing of policy initiatives for safer and cleaner air in areas with a high population of people of color. \u00a0Dr. Sheat\u2019s primary belief is that \u201cclimate-change mitigation must not only reduce carbon dioxide emissions but also reduce the disproportionate amount of pollution in many environmental-justice communities\u201d. \u00a0Dr. Sheats argues that the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has produced research which shows that there are race and income based inequalities in New Jersey that positively correlate with the amount of pollution in these New Jersey areas. \u00a0Dr. Sheats\u2019 work focuses on reducing the pollution in areas of low income <\/span>by using climate-change mitigation policy, which will also help fight climate change by reducing carbon dioxide emissions.<\/span><\/p>\n

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