[1] Following his PhD, Mohai worked as an assistant professor at Utah State University in their College of Natural Resources.

The article focused on the different concerns black individuals had regarding their environment compared to their white counterparts; such as a larger emphasis on pollution than nature preservation issues.

[8] In 2002, Mohai was re-appointed Principal Investigator of the University of Michigan's Detroit Area Study (DAS).

[10] A few years later, he co-authored a report with Robert Bullard titled Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty, 1987-2007: Grassroots Struggles to Dismantle Environmental Racism in the United States, which examined how people of color disproportionality lived in hazardous waste hotspots which were not protected by environmental law.

[13] In 2019, Mohai and graduate students Laura Grier, Delia Mayor, and Brett Zeuner co-published a report titled Assessing the State of Environmental Justice in Michigan.