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THE CHALLENGE
Environmental injustice, including the proliferation of climate change, systematically impacts communities of color and low-income communities in the U.S. and around the world.
Environmental and climate justice is a civil rights issue. We all depend on the physical environment and its bounty.
Toxic facilities, like coal-fired power plants and incinerators, emit mercury, arsenic, lead, and other contaminants into the water, food, and lungs of communities. Many of these same facilities also emit carbon dioxide and methane — the No. 1 and No. 2 drivers of climate change. But not all people are equally impacted. Race — even more than class — is the number one indicator for the placement of toxic facilities in this country hit by climate change.
PROTECTING BLACK COMMUNITIES
Environmental injustice is about people who have died and others who are chronically ill because of exposure to toxins.
Climate change is the new normal of more severe storms, like hurricanes Sandy and Isaac, which devastated communities from Boston to Biloxi. Our sisters and brothers in the Bahamas, and Inuit communities in Kivalina, Alaska, and communities in Thibodaux, Louisiana, and beyond, will risk property losses to rising sea levels in the next few years.
Climate change and environmental injustice: we work to address the many practices that are harming communities nationwide and worldwide. We fight for the policies needed to rectify these impacts and advance a society that fosters sustainable, cooperative, regenerative communities that uphold all rights for all people in harmony with the earth.
WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING FOR
Reduce harmful emissions, particularly greenhouse gases
Reduce harmful emissions, particularly greenhouse gases
Reduce harmful emissions, particularly greenhouse gases
We combine action on shutting down coal plants and other toxic facilities, as well as the building of new toxic facilities, at the local level with advocacy to strengthen development, monitoring, and enforcement of regulations at federal, state, and local levels. This also includes a focus on corporate responsibility and accountability.
Advance energy efficiency and clean energy
Reduce harmful emissions, particularly greenhouse gases
Reduce harmful emissions, particularly greenhouse gases
We work at the state level on campaigns to pass renewable energy and energy efficiency standards while simultaneously working to provide safer, more sustainable mechanisms for managing energy needs for our communities and beyond. We also support small businesses, unions, and others to develop demonstration projects to ensure that communities of color are accessing revenue generation opportunities in the new energy economy.
Strengthen community resilience and livability
PRIORITIZE OPPORTUNITIES FOR BLACK ENTREPRENEURS IN THE GREEN ECONOMY
PRIORITIZE OPPORTUNITIES FOR BLACK ENTREPRENEURS IN THE GREEN ECONOMY
We work to ensure that communities are equipped to engage in sustainability and climate action planning that integrates policies and practices on advancing food justice, advocating for transportation equity, upholding civil and human rights in emergency management, and facilitating participatory democracy.
PRIORITIZE OPPORTUNITIES FOR BLACK ENTREPRENEURS IN THE GREEN ECONOMY
PRIORITIZE OPPORTUNITIES FOR BLACK ENTREPRENEURS IN THE GREEN ECONOMY
PRIORITIZE OPPORTUNITIES FOR BLACK ENTREPRENEURS IN THE GREEN ECONOMY
We support a transition away from fossil fuels that's comprehensive, systemic, and rooted in upholding our inalienable rights to air, water, food, housing, energy, and our livelihoods. The Environmental Justice Interagency Directive (Presidential Executive Order 12898) is rooted in ensuring there are diminished negative impacts of actions across agencies. We recommended to the Biden administration to expand this directive to ensure that racial justice is defined to include equitable distribution of quality access as we shift away from a fossil fuel economy.