Sentences with phrase «environmental justice communities»

If we do not learn any lessons from the past about the creation of environmental justice communities... we're going to create new ones.

We really have to be proactive in dealing with environmental justice communities, to make sure we don't make our problem even worse by adding more communities to the list.

Those are facilities that, not all the time, but more likely than not, are located in or near environmental justice communities.

This story highlights the challenges faced by rural environmental justice communities as they try to ensure that ongoing waste disposal and pollution do not pose public health and environmental threats to local residents.

That is a bad deal for environmental justice communities in California and abroad.»

«From banning smoking in apartment building areas to supporting environmental justice communities and strengthening the city's green building standards to reduce carbon emissions, the City Council is proud of its successful efforts to reduce asthma rates and make New York a greener and more sustainable City,» Mark - Viverito's spokeswoman, Robin Levine, wrote in an email.

Soon after acting Commissioner Basil Seggos was nominated, DEC was added to co-lead status on review of the Pilgrim Pipeline, meaning the project must undergo assessments on climate impacts, how environmental justice communities are affected, as well as wetlands protections and other considerations.

So for the first time, you can really start to get the tangible representation of the enormity and the complexity of the challenges facing environmental justice communities.

But I couldn't be more well - prepared to move up and start looking at the entire suite of environmental justice communities around the United States than to have had this experience in Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast.

Please join the New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance and the Center for American Progress, along with New Jersey mayors and state officials, environmental justice community residents and advocates, and progressive policy leaders to discuss just policy options to reduce carbon pollution and associated co-pollutants.

According to Angela Johnson Meszaros, a lawyer and veteran environmental justice advocate, «There were lots of things that got incorporated into the language in the service of building a coalition, so they could have environmental justice communities pushing for adoption of AB 32.»

We'll be working to build power across the state to by engaging environmental justice communities, conservationists, labor partners, and everyday people in order to make climate change a priority issue across Illinois in 2018.

Achieving emissions reductions for environmental justice communities through climate change mitigation policy by Nicky Sheats, PhD This paper focuses on emissions reductions for EJ communities under the Clean Power Plan in particular as well as climate change mitigation policy in general and argues that these reductions should be both mandatory and planned.

Establish environmental health protection, resiliency planning, and recovery programs aimed specifically at protecting the most vulnerable populations, including environmental justice communities, persons with preexisting medical conditions, and persons without the financial resources to fully protect themselves and the health of their families.

Areas of Expertise: Clean Air Act, State Implementation Plans, environmental and land use tools for environmental justice communities, transition to clean energy.

In December, The Business Council joined with members of the development community, the environmental justice community, and the environmental community, to request that the Executive Budget amend and extend the brownfield tax credits.

We have been talking to the administrator and her office for the past year about the long - term implication of the growth in ports and goods movement, and what that means not just for those [coastal] environmental justice communities... but how it's likely to impact other [inland] communities that could become environmental justice communities.

There's a whole diversity of environmental justice communities across the United States, from Puerto Rico to Alaska, so I'm really looking forward to meeting with more of those environmental justice community members and appreciating the similarities and also finding out what's unique about them.

If we acknowledge problems frankly we can find ways to deal with them in a much more direct manner... Hopefully we can find ways to alleviate the negative aspects of these environmental justice communities.

She has worked to reduce emissions especially around port areas and environmental justice communities.

Environmental Justice: The FAA has always been committed to ensuring that impacts to environmental justice communities (i.e., low income and minority populations as defined by Executive Order 12898 on Environmental Justice) are taken into consideration with FAA actions.

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.

Solar PV net metering caps are eliminated and solar is for all: low - income, renters, environmental justice communities, and public housing.

To implement this vision, individuals and organizations representing low to moderate income and environmental justice communities will be engaged and consulted to design impactful solutions, including the Governor's Environmental Justice and Just Transition Work Group.