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[ + ]California Energy Commission – Environmental Justice
| Title | California Energy Commission – Environmental Justice |
| Description | California Energy Commission (the commission) is an agency that works to reduce energy costs, usage, and greenhouse gas emissions through energy policy and planning. The California Energy Commission integrates environmental justice into its application analysis for siting power plants and related facilities Public commenting is open to English and to non-English speakers. This site includes a great deal of information, including: Federal laws, guidelines and policies; California laws, guidelines and policies; California Resources Agency EJ policy; public e-commenting link for power plant proceedings. |
| URL | http://www.energy.ca.gov/public_adviser/environmental_justice_faq.html |
[ + ]Center for Health, Environment & Justice
| Title | Center for Health, Environment & Justice |
| Description | The Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ) is a grassroots environmental activism organization. CHEJ works to fight environmental health and environmental justice issues that affect communities across the nation. The site includes information about issues including fracking, superfund, climate change and toxic chemicals. The site also features a “tools to help you win” section which includes access to science and technical assistance, workshop training on how to understand scientific information, and grassroots leadership training. |
| URL | http://chej.org/ |
[ + ]Coming Clean
| Title | Coming Clean |
| Description | Organization founded in 2001 that collaborates with other organizations to create communities that are free of toxic chemicals. Coming Clean works with grassroots groups for environmental justice in the following areas: industry practices in agriculture, advocating for safer consumer goods, chemical generating and storage facilities. The site provides information about environmental justice principles, safe solutions for toxic chemicals and pesticides in vulnerable communities, and reports and websites about energy, chemicals, and climate. |
| URL | http://www.comingcleaninc.org/ |
[ + ]Department of Agriculture (USDA): Env. Management Div. Response and Restoration
| Title | Department of Agriculture (USDA): Env. Management Div. Response and Restoration |
| Description | The USDA - Environmental Management Division (EMD) Response and Restoration page dedicated to Environmental Justice includes PDFs for the USDA Environmental Justice Strategic Plan, Environmental Justice Progress Report and USDA policy. The site also provides links to related Response and Restoration Programs such as reporting spills, site cleanup, emergency response, , brownfields, land transactions and radiation safety. |
| URL | https://www.dm.usda.gov/emd/responserestoration/EnvironmentalJustice.htm |
[ + ]Department of Agriculture (USDA): Natural Resources Conservation Service
| Title | Department of Agriculture (USDA): Natural Resources Conservation Service |
| Description | USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) provides information about the role it plays in environmental justice. NRCS provides information about its goals and objectives regarding environmental justice, such as assisting minority communities and collaborating with the state and federal government to ensure that activities benefit impacted communities. The site provides information about environmental justice tools, success stories and executive orders that NRCS uses when adverse effects on these communities are identified. |
| URL | https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/national/about/justice/ |
[ + ]Department of Energy (DOE): Environmental Justice
| Title | Department of Energy (DOE): Environmental Justice |
| Description | The DOE, in its Office of Legacy Management, provides an environmental justice program that is committed to maintain the goals of Executive Order 12898. This Executive Order instructed all federal agencies to identify and address environmental harms against low-income and minority communities. The DOE provides information regarding Executive Order 12898, its Environmental Justice Strategy, Environmental Justice Five-Year Implementation Plan and interagency activities and resources. |
| URL | https://energy.gov/lm/services/environmental-justice |
[ + ]Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): Environmental Justice
| Title | Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): Environmental Justice |
| Description | HHS EJ provides links to: Environmental Justice Questions & Answers PDFs, strategies HHS uses to address environmental justice, environmental justice progress reports, and cross-federal resources on environmental justice. Includes educational tools to educate the general public about toxicology, chemicals releases, and more. |
| URL | https://www.hhs.gov/environmental-justice/index.html |
[ + ]Environmental Integrity Project
| Title | Environmental Integrity Project |
| Description | Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) is an organization that serves as a watchdog against big polluter industries. EIP works for low-income communities harmed by industries that pollute water sources and air. The site provides reports, news, and data resources for environmental justice issues like coal ash contamination. EIP collaborated with local residents for environmental justice in Baltimore, MD and Houston, TX. |
| URL | http://www.environmentalintegrity.org/what-we-do/environmental-justice/ |
[ + ]Environmental Justice / Environmental Racism
| Title | Environmental Justice / Environmental Racism |
| Description | Environmental Justice / Environmental Racism is a site that is maintained and managed by the Energy Justice Network. This site contains resources that provide links to information and studies about environmental justice. These resources include principles of environmental justice, climate justice principles, general background information, studies about environmental racism and classism, websites, environmental justice struggles and race issues, and U.S. Environmental Law and Policy. |
| URL | http://www.ejnet.org/ej/ |
[ + ]Environmental Justice at the Department of Justice
| Title | Environmental Justice at the Department of Justice |
| Description | The Department of Justice (DOJ) works toward implementing the goals of Executive Order 12898, issued in 1994, which instructed federal agencies to identify and addres environmental effects that have an adverse impact on human health among low-income and minority communities. This site provides links to DOJ’s guidance and insight regarding environmental justice strategies. The site also provides a link to the Environmental Justice Implementation Progress Report, which the public is encouraged to comment on. |
| URL | https://www.justice.gov/ej |
[ + ]Environmental Justice: A Research Project
| Title | Environmental Justice: A Research Project |
| Description | Funded by the European Union and overseen by an international advisory board, this site brings together university researchers and EJ organizations. Among their resources are fact sheets, an EJ atlas, a glossary, and a blog. Searching can be done by keyword or by theme. |
| URL | http://www.envjustice.org |
[ + ]EPA- Environmental Justice
| Title | EPA- Environmental Justice |
| Description | Provides users with information about the fair treatment of all people with help from the implementation of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. Resources include the EJSCREEN for mapping and screening affected areas, the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC), environmental justice for indigenous tribes, EPA’s EJ 2020 Action Agenda for advancing environmental justice, an overview of the environmental justice movement, community voices on environmental justice, and how environmental justice relates to NEPA as well as Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. |
| URL | https://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice |
[ + ]Natural Resources Defense Council - Protecting Communities
| Title | Natural Resources Defense Council - Protecting Communities |
| Description | The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) provides policy solutions to protect the health of low-income communities, preserve the Clean Air Act, encourage climate-resilient communities, and reduce fracking and tar sands hazards. The site provides articles and reports about different environmental justice issues, which can be found by typing “environmental justice” into the search bar. |
| URL | https://www.nrdc.org/issues/protecting-communities |
[ + ]Sierra Club - Environmental Justice
| Title | Sierra Club - Environmental Justice |
| Description | Sierra Club is an environmental organization that has been a leader in environmental protection and clean energy over the years. They have started programs across the United States that provide a framework to protect communities from environmental harms and discrimination. This site provides information regarding Sierra Club’s regional campaigns, history of the program, environmental justice in the Clean Power Plan and a list of resources linking to environmental justice networks and organizations. |
| URL | http://www.sierraclub.org/environmental-justice |
[ + ]Tox Town
| Title | Tox Town |
| Description | Tox Town provides information on locations and situations where exposure to toxic chemicals is possible. Searchable by chemicals and contaminants, sources of exposure, diseases and conditions, or by key word. Also includes community action tools. |
| URL | https://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/ |
[ + ]WE ACT for Environmental Justice
| Title | WE ACT for Environmental Justice |
| Description | WE ACT is an organization located in Washington D.C. and New York City that works to combat environmental racism in America’s most polluted communities. The site provides a Resources and Reports page that has 30 years’ worth of publications in which WE ACT has been involved. These publications include reports and research involving environmental justice organizations, environmental justice news, advancing the environmental justice movement, and studies discussing pollutants that are harmful to communities. |
| URL | https://www.weact.org/ |
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