Sentences with phrase «environmental justice project»
Friday, May 4 More Than a Fish Fry: Eating Fish from our Local Waterways Katy Brown, Public Health & Environmental Justice Project Manager, Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper
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Judith Enck, this area's regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, said environmental justice best practices require not only public meetings, but other strategies to engage those affected Environmental Protection Agency, said environmental justice best practices require not only public meetings, but other strategies to engage those affected environmental justice best practices require not only public meetings, but other strategies to engage those affected by a project.
Federal and state environmental justice rules state that low - income, minority communities can not bear a disproportionate amount of health and environmental impacts from any project.
A Supreme Court justice stalled Phase II of the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, ordering an updated environmental review that includes public hearings.
A separate lawsuit — brought by groups including the Urban Justice Center and the New York Environmental Law and Justice Project — is still pending, according to Capital New York.
Jeff Kuperman of the New York Environmental Law and Justice Project, said the highest levels found were alarmingly high.
Billed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn as a move toward environmental justice, the East 91st Street project has long gotten flak from locals — who claim it will bring pollution, noise, rats, and wreak havoc on the overall quality - of - life.
«This is bittersweet vindication,» says attorney Joel Kupferman of the New York Environmental Law and Justice Project, who is representing affected residents, workers, and students in the World Trade Center area.
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In addition to being a BIE National Faculty member, JoAnn Groh is a co-founder and principal of Paulo Freire Freedom School in Tucson, Arizona, where project - based learning is implemented and the curricular focuses on social justice / environmental sustainability.
Areas of specialty: Social justice, restorative justice, environmental stewardship, project - based learning, and social / emotional learning.
The team also works on issues of historic preservation, environmental stewardship, efficient project delivery, and environmental justice.
Pratt Institute's Programs for Sustainable Planning and Development (PSPD) will present lectures on environmental justice in New York, climate change and preservation, case studies of New York City development projects, and on construction and facilities...
Earthjustice represents the Union of Concerned Scientists, Environmental Integrity Project, Sierra Club, Coalition For A Safe Environment (Wilmington, CA), Del Amo Action Committee (Torrance, CA), California Communities Against Toxics, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, Air Alliance Houston, Community In - Power & Development Association (Port Arthur, TX), Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services, Clean Air Council (Philadelphia, PA), Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, and Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (West Virginia).
For almost 20 years she has been a vocal advocate for environmental justice, giving stirring speeches and interviews like this one for the Climate Reality Project.
Members include Appalachian Voices, Coal River Mountain Watch, Gainesville Loves Mountains, Hands Off Appalachia, Heartwood, Highlander Research and Education Center, Keepers of the Mountains Foundation, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment, Sierra Club Environmental Justice, The Stay Together Appalachian Youth Project, Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards, SouthWings and the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy.
Beyond Pesticides works regularly with the Center for Food Safety; Environmental Working Group; Pesticide Action Network North America; Xerces Society; EarthShare; Combined Federal Campaign; American Bird Conservancy, Beyond Toxics, the Endocrine Disruption Exchange, Haereticus Environmental Laboratory, Institute for Fisheries Resources, the Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, Organic Farmers Marketing Association; Bio-Logical Pest Management; Roseland Farms; Kids for Saving Earth Worldwide; PEST Education Project; Pesticide Watch; Children's Health Environmental Coalition; Horizon Organic Dairy, Inc.; Donaldson - McMahon Family Farms; Lideres Campesinas en California; Kansas Chapter, Sierra Club; Farmworker Justice Fund; Maryland Pesticide Network and others.
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The topics on which we believe additional information and analysis are necessary include the purpose and need for the project, potential greenhouse gas emissions associated with the project, air pollutant emissions at the receiving refineries, pipeline safety / spill response, potential impacts to environmental justice communities, wetlands and migratory birds.
On September 8 in Flint, the bi-annual Michigan Environmental Justice Summit will be held, convened by the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition and supported by this project and team.
The vision describes a future for Europe in which «sustainability sits firmly at the heart of the European project,» and the EU focuses on «democracy and participation, social and environmental justice, solidarity and sustainability, respect for the rule of law, and human rights both within Europe and around the globe».
Gopal has been a campaigner for Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition on human rights and environmental justice in the high - tech industry and the Oil Campaigner for Project Underground, a human rights and environmental rights organization which supported communities resisting oil and mining exploitation around the world.
Environmental Justice Australia has drafted model No More Bad Investments (NMBI) legislation (downloadable from this page) which state / territory governments could implement in order to ban new climate - damaging projects.
While a student at UCLA, she led E3: Ecology, Economy, Equity, an environmental and social - justice organization, and helped launch the Green Initiative Fund, a grant - making fund for sustainability projects on the UCLA campus.
A citizen advisory group is created to provide input in addition to the Economic and Environmental Justice Oversight panel regarding the development of project funding criteria and decisions.
Each congregation performs a self - assessment, writes a plan, and completes projects across: Environmental Justice / Climate Justice, Worship and Celebration, Religious Education, and Sustainable Living.
A tremendous thank - you to Ms. Johnson, the trainees, Millennium Solar, Quality Electrical Construction and the many partners who helped make this demonstration project a success: Blacks in Green, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, Faith in Place, Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition, Elevate Energy and 7th Ward Alderman Greg Mitchell.
Propose a rad idea for an internship project with a focus on Environmental Justice and Zero Waste
PLAN is seeking a student that is inspired to build or develop a project that is focused on the intersectional framework of environmental justice movement and broader social justice work.
At ICC she oversaw a wide range of environmental justice, community development and community based planning and research projects in her native Ironbound community in Newark, New Jersey.
The challenge itself was the product of collaboration between thinkMTV and the Campus Climate Challenge, a project of 30 leading environmental and social justice organizations working with hundreds of high schools and colleges to help them make their schools greener.
This past year, the Northwest Earth Institute was fortunate enough to have Melanie Horton, a recent graduate of Naropa University's Environmental Leadership program in Boulder, Colorado, do an applied leadership internship project looking at how NWEI's work intersects with environmental juEnvironmental Leadership program in Boulder, Colorado, do an applied leadership internship project looking at how NWEI's work intersects with environmental juenvironmental justice issues.
Thus, for my project, I chose to advocate for more of a focus on environmental justice issues in the organization's programmatic materials and to provide them with a list of resources and action steps by which they can begin to more overtly give voice to the EJ perspective.
Goldman Environmental Prize recipients focus on protecting endangered ecosystems and species, combating destructive development projects, promoting sustainability, influencing environmental policies, and striving for environmeEnvironmental Prize recipients focus on protecting endangered ecosystems and species, combating destructive development projects, promoting sustainability, influencing environmental policies, and striving for environmeenvironmental policies, and striving for environmentalenvironmental justice.
A coalition of environmental organizations took their case to the High Court of Justice, arguing that the public and government bodies should be given at least 90 days to submit comments on the new law (the same amount of time the new law gives the planning system to discuss and approve large construction projects).
Together, they will take action against the pipeline project as a reminder that generations of peaceful resistance have won change across Canada, from Indigenous rights, to environmental protection, to peace activism and social justice.
In a student impact project to promote environmental justice, I worked to obtain prizes from local businesses to give out in a raffle.
Provided assistance in preparing environmental justice assessments for regional projects involving minority and low - income demographics.
Current projects focus on such issues as early childhood development, including child mental health; climate and ocean change; education, including STEM learning; environmental health; criminal justice; and immigration.