As part of a groundbreaking environmental justice program funded by Caltrans, California’s transportation authority, two Bay Area transportation organizations will receive an environmental justice planning grant. Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and the Northern California chapter of the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO) will be implementing the grant, which is designed to increase community [...]
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 [...]
Find environmental justice statistics on your area from scorecard.org: http://www.scorecard.org/community/ej-index.tcl The subject of environmental justice is important, sensitive, and hard to measure. Advocates make a strong case that poor communities and communities of color can bear more than their share of environmental burdens – but in which places, and to what extent?Scorecard profiles environmental burdens [...]
via the Environmental Justice Blog EPA is awarding approximately$800,000 in grants to organizations working with communities facing environmental justice challenges throughout the country. Forty grants, up to $20,000 each, are going to community-based organizations and local and tribal governments in 28 states for community projects aimed at addressing environmental and public health issues. The projects [...]
Via the EPA The 2009 Environmental Justice Achievement Awards will recognize mutli-stakeholder partnerships for their success in addressing environmental justice issues or by adopting the goals of environmental justice to positively impact their community. The goals of the Environmental Justice Awards Program include, but are not limited to, the following: promoting positive behavior on environmental [...]
If you’d like to stay informed of what we’re up to, subscribe to our mailing list. Volume 2 of the Environmental Justice Toolkit (EJTK) has just been released. This document expands upon the work done in Volume 1 in reviewing transportation related environmental justice issues in Baltimore. It takes the form of a guide whose [...]
We’ve just added the technical documentation to the Environmental Justice Toolkit. You can view it embedded on the EJ Toolkit page or download it directly from scribd.com.
The BREJTP Envirnomental Justice Booklet has been released. This booklet provides a highly readable summary of four of the BREJTP case studies as well as an overview of Environmental Justice and the BREJTP toolkit. You can download this booklet as a pdf or view it live on scribd.com.
