Environmental Justice in Transportation Toolkit

Via the Maryland Daily Record:
JOE NATHANSON
Special to The Daily Record
June 9, 2009
What would West Baltimore’s infamous “highway to nowhere” have in common with an MTA bus depot located in East Baltimore? The Route 40/Franklin-Mulberry corridor highway tore through established neighborhoods in the 1970s. The planned connection to Interstate 70 was never finished and the incomplete [...]

Lisa P. Jackson, President Barack Obama’s choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency addressed the third anual State of the Environmental Justice in America 2009 coference this past friday via video.  Administrator Jackson called on grassroots movements in the US to “help build a 21st century sustainable infracstructure.”
A video of Jacksons address is available on [...]