Sentences with phrase «environmental justice in»

In May 2008, for example, a report entitled «Ensuring Access to Environmental Justice in England and Wales», which was produced by an informal working group under Sullivan J, criticised the strict private interest requirement, as applied to environmental cases.

But not only to them — Sullivan LJ was the chairman of the working group that in 2008 wrote «Ensuring Access to Environmental Justice in England and Wales».

10 See, e.g., Cliff Villa, Sampling the Garden Soil, Environmental Justice in Action: Blogging about Efforts to Achieve Environmental Justice in Overburdened Communities (Nov. 24, 2014), http://blog.epa.gov/ej/2014/11/ sampling - the - garden - soil / (author is Assistant Regional Counsel for EPA Region 10 as well as an adjunct law professor).

It remains to be seen how this will apply to a broader public consultation on a complex area by an expert decision - maker, particularly in the context of environmental decision - making, where the Aarhus Convention and Mr Justice Sullivan's report on environmental justice [Ensuring Access to Environmental Justice in England and Wales; report of the working group on access to environmental justice, May 2008] continue to shape an increasingly rigorous approach to consultation.

Juliana Pino Policy Director, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization At LVEJO, Juliana analyzes, researches, and advocates for environmental justice in local, state, and national policy.

But it is also the case that the strongest advocates for environmental justice in California, who support the progressive use of cap - and trade - funds, typically are strongly sympathetic with global justice issues as well.

We are grateful to Melanie for helping NWEI craft a plan to address environmental justice in future operations and programming.

Join us next week as we explore the work of Goldman Prize winners Hilton Kelley (2011) and Margie Richard (2004) as they fight for environmental justice in the Gulf Coast.

Climate justice was on the agenda at the Young Friends of the Earth Europe summer camp 2015 in Brittany, north - west France, as 100 European youth gathered to discuss action plans and environmental justice in the run - up to this December's UN climate talks in Paris — the COP21.

Earth Ministry and WA Interfaith Power & Light raises up the moral foundation for environmental justice in the state legislature.

On November 28, 2017, ELI, Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., the American Bar Association (ABA) Civil Rights & Social Justice's Environmental Justice Committee, and the ABA Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources Special Committee on Environmental Justice held a special program, Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: Threats and Opportunities, that featured U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D - NJ) as the keynote speaker.

This is why tens of thousands turned out for the «Moral March» at the state's capitol last month, demanding broader access to affordable healthcare and «environmental justice in every community.»

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.

The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) is a US - based NGO aiming to promote human health and environmental justice in response to the rapid growth of the high - tech industry.

To be able to share the story of our fight for environmental justice in Little Village and lessons learned was a true honor.

In that press release the EPA touted the revival as a demonstration of «the Obama administration's dedicating to ensuring all Americans have strong federal protection from environmental and health hazards... This historic gathering marks a recommitment to advancing the mandate of Executive Order 12898, «Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations,» which states that each agency, with the law as its guide, should make environmental justice part of its mission.»

«rbG: b» confronts head - on the question of collective responsibility and environmental justice in a time of dramatic climate change.

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...

From now until December 31, 2011, the Department is inviting the public to provide insights, experiences and ideas for enhancing environmental justice in transportation related activities by signing on to www.ej.ideascale.com.

In 2012, the Department issued DOT Order 5610.2 (a), Department of Transportation Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations (DOT EJ Order), updating the original order issued in 1997.

Executive Order (EO) 12898, Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations (February 11, 1994), requires each Federal agency to «make achieving environmental justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies, and activities on minority populations and low - income populations.»

Significant progress is underway in improving the effective, efficient, and consistent consideration of environmental justice in the NEPA review process.

The planning team coordinates across the Department to ensure that DOT's Operating Administrations examine their programs, policies, and activities and take appropriate actions to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Executive Order 12898, the Memorandum of Understanding on Environmental Justice and Executive Order 12898, and DOT Order 5610.2 (a)(Department of Transportation Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations).

In this capacity, she integrates environmental justice in agency decision - making, supports community based action, and fosters administration wide action that promotes healthy, equitable, resilient and sustainable communities for overburdened populations.

Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low Income Populations, Executive Order 12898;

Executive Order 12898, «Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations (February 11, 1994), (E.O. 12898 or E.O.) requires each Federal agency to «make achieving environmental justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies and activities on minority populations and low - income populations.»

DOT Order 5610.2 «Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations» provides guidance to DOT's Operating Administrations (OAs) for integrating EJ principles into existing programs, policies, and activities.

107; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; 29 C.F.R. Part 1614; Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government; Executive Order 12898, Federal Actions To Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low - Income Populations; Executive Order 13087, Further Amendment to Executive Order 11478, Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government; Executive Order 13160, Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Race, Sex, Color, National Origin, Disability, Religion, Age, Sexual Orientation, and Status as a Parent in Federally Conducted Education and Training Programs; Executive Order 13166, Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967; the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009; Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) regulations governing the processing of complaints of discrimination in the Federal sector; and EEOC decisions, procedures, guidelines, and program and management directives.

Across the country there is a growing movement being led by students who are working with adults from their communities and schools to contribute to school improvement by calling for social, economic, racial, and environmental justice in schools.

We have been working for social, economic, and environmental justice in Tennessee for more than 40 years.

The choice of this theme fosters environmental justice in the context of the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations and the UN International Year of Sustainable Energy for All, putting forward the link between local and global issues.

In this issue: Environmental Justice in New Mexico - Renewed Push for Change; Recommendations on Environmental Justice - New Mexicans Respond; The Healthy Communities Bill — An Interview with Sofia Martinez; Richard Moore on Environmental Justice and the New Mexico Environment Department's Policy Committee; Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, Jr. signs Diné Natural Resources Protection Act of 2005 New law bans uranium mining, processing throughout Navajo Nation; Diné Natural Resources Protection Act of 2005

I see it as my job to get in there and make use of these new rules or these new positions for environmental justice in decision - making processes, really implementing the fundamental groundwork that's been laid over the past several years.

Bill McKibben, whose book The End of Nature was one of the first to protest against the effects of climate change, offers us, in Eaarth, one of the most important books on environmental justice in the 21st century.

The church participates in that redemptive activity as it seeks to promote social, economic and environmental justice in energy decisions.

Not exact matches

Majora Carter rose to national prominence in 2006 with a poignant TED talk on environmental justice.

«Building on prior actions against BP and its subsidiaries by the Department of Justice, this historic resolution is a strong and fitting response to the worst environmental disaster in American history,» U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in a statement.

The judge said in a 91 - page decision that, while the Army Corps substantially complied with the National Environmental Policy Act, federal permits issued for the pipeline violated the law in some respects, saying in a court order the Corps did not «adequately consider the impacts of an oil spill on fishing rights, hunting rights, or environmental juEnvironmental Policy Act, federal permits issued for the pipeline violated the law in some respects, saying in a court order the Corps did not «adequately consider the impacts of an oil spill on fishing rights, hunting rights, or environmental juenvironmental justice.»

Environmental and racial - justice activist Siwatu - Salama Ra was unjustly prosecuted and imprisoned, and, now in the third trimester of a high - risk pregnancy, is serving a two - year sentence.

The letter echoes the demands trade justice advocates have long called for: transparent and democratic negotiations; strong and enforceable labour rights, including for migrant workers; protection of public services; enforceable environmental standards; and the right to regulate in the public's interest.

The Trade Justice Network joined over 30 labour, environmental, social justice and faith - based organizations in signing an open letter on NAFTA, the environment and climate Justice Network joined over 30 labour, environmental, social justice and faith - based organizations in signing an open letter on NAFTA, the environment and climate justice and faith - based organizations in signing an open letter on NAFTA, the environment and climate change.

The pan-Canadian coalition, which emerged from the North American civil society gathering on NAFTA in Mexico City in May 2017, is made up of labour, environmental, farmer, social justice and other civil society groups across English - speaking Canada and Quebec.

Environmental Justice Take part in ride shares to work and the store.

We have been deeply involved in movements for abolition, suffrage, civil rights, economic and environmental justice, and now we are at the forefront of the movement in the church for LGBTQ inclusion.

The main task of the Board is to coordinate and facilitate sustainable development programmes on Justice, Peace and Environmental issues in all the Dioceses of the Church of North India.

Most of us are more immediately involved in issues of gender, ethnic pluralism, and justice than in global environmental questions.

Human rights holism must be read in the light of environmental and ecological justice because man can survive only under appropriate environment and ecological milieu whereunder sustainable development and growth with justice may be possible.

Laudato Si, last week's encyclical from Pope Francis, seeks to address a plethora of problems in the modern world — predominately focusing on environmental issues, distributive justice, and perceived problems with consensus developmental economic theory.

I believe in freedom, justice, equality, human rights, compassion, charity, environmental protection and democracy.

For example, modern economics are now able to indulge their tastes (as economists put it in their cold way) for environmental change, social justice, human rights.