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[ + ]California Energy Commission – Environmental Justice
| Title | California Energy Commission – Environmental Justice |
| Description | California Energy Commission (the commission) is an agency in California that works to reduce energy costs, usage, and greenhouse gas emissions through energy policy and planning. The site provides a page dedicated to information about environmental justice that the commission is required to consider during the environmental impact decision-making process. The page includes federal environmental justice policy, federal laws and guidelines related to environmental justice, California’s environmental justice laws and guidelines, power plant siting information and environmental justice reference materials. |
| 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 like fracking, superfund, climate change and toxic chemicals. The site also features publications about superfund sites, dangers in your community, and organizing and leadership. |
| 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 to prevent industries from harming the health and safety of the most vulnerable communities. The site provides information about its guiding principles, environmental justice principles, its environmental justice work, safe solutions for toxic chemicals and pesticides in vulnerable communities, and reports and websites about energy, chemicals, and climate. |
| URL | http://www.comingcleaninc.org/ |
[ + ]EJOLT- Mapping Environmental Justice
| Title | EJOLT- Mapping Environmental Justice |
| Description | EJOLT is a research project that helps link different countries together through environmental justice organizations. EJOLT provides a resource library with a variety of tools and information about environmental justice. This resource library allows users to browse by theme as well as by type of source for information about different environmental justice topics. The site also provides news, success stories and a blog. |
| URL | http://www.ejolt.org/ |
[ + ]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 fights for low-income communities who are harmed by industries that pollute the water they drink and the air they breathe. The site provides reports, news, and documents as well as information about different environmental justice issues they have worked on 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 |
[ + ]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) is an environmental law group that works to make Earth a more sustainable place for all living beings. 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. Sierra Club has 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 about the program, environmental justice in the Clean Power Plan and resources about environmental justice networks and organizations. |
| URL | http://www.sierraclub.org/environmental-justice |
[ + ]U.S. Department of Energy - Environmental Justice
| Title | U.S. Department of Energy - Environmental Justice |
| Description | The U.S. Department of Energy (the Department), 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 Department provides information regarding Executive Order 12898, its Environmental Justice Strategy, Environmental Justice Five-Year Implementation Plan and additional resources about environmental justice. |
| URL | https://energy.gov/lm/services/environmental-justice |
[ + ]U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – Environmental Justice
| Title | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – Environmental Justice |
| Description | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – Environmental Justice provides information about environmental justice at HHS. HHS provides links to a Question and Answers PDF about environmental justice, strategies HHS has used to address environmental justice, environmental justice progress reports, and cross-federal resources on environmental justice. |
| URL | https://www.hhs.gov/environmental-justice/index.html |
[ + ]University of Washington’s Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
| Title | University of Washington’s Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences |
| Description | The Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS) is committed to protecting human health through studies, research, and teachings about harmful environmental exposures. DEOHS provides a page dedicated to sustainable communities. An environmental justice link is provided for users to learn more about DEOH’s work in promoting sustainable communities. The environmental justice page provides information about equality, equity, and autonomy, definitions of environmental justice, environmental racism, environmental justice at DEOHS, research and activities, and environmental justice resources such as books, government sources, and academic journals & law articles. |
| URL | http://deohs.washington.edu/sustainable-communities |
[ + ]USDA - Natural Resources Conservation Service
| Title | 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 state and federal government to ensure 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/ |
[ + ]USDA- Environmental Management Division Response and Restoration
| Title | USDA- Environmental Management Division Response and Restoration |
| Description | The USDA - Environmental Management Division (EMD) Response and Restoration provides information about environmental justice. The site provides the USDA Environmental Justice Strategic Plan, Environmental Justice Progress Report and USDA policy. EMD’s site also provides links to related Response and Restoration Programs such as site cleanup, emergency response, brownfields and land transactions. |
| URL | https://www.dm.usda.gov/emd/responserestoration/EnvironmentalJustice.htm |
[ + ]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 conducted 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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