Robert Bullard Isn’t Done Yet.

FEATURES IN 1979, ROBERT BULLARD AND A TEAM OF 10 GRADUATE STUDENTS SPENT WEEKS poring over city records, library archives, and microfiche, searching for landfill locations in Houston, a sprawling, 557-square-mile city that's home to nearly 1.5 million people. To find a landfill, Bullard and his students had to follow the paper trails of permits, deeds, and licenses. Robert Bullard Isn't Done Yet Bullard started looking at landfills after his then wife, Linda, an attorney, sued the City of Houston and Southwestern Waste Management over a proposal to build a landfill in a predominantly Black, middle-class neighborhood in northeast Houston called Northwood Manor. [Extracted from the article]