Sentences with phrase «environmental justice process»

Served as co-lead counsel for the property acquisition, permitting, environmental justice process, and drafting of all Community Benefits and Tax Agreements for a large independent energy company siting a new power plant.

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Move Forward New York is a citizen action group committed to promoting social justice, preserving civil rights, and ensuring environmental conservation by encouraging participation in the political process on all levels through education, collaboration, and activism.

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.

«The environmental justice issues facing Native American communities range from direct environmental, public health, cultural and sacred sites impacts, to lack of meaningful involvement and fair treatment in the governmental decision - making processes,» according to an emailed response by the EPA's press office.

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

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.

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

Mr. Nodal states, «The Citizen Artists have employed a collaborative process with a multidisciplinary approach, involving all creative disciplines in collaboration with politicians, environmental activists, scientists, and community organizers to help individuals and communities understand and face the challenges of environmental justice, global environmental degradation, and for the last eight years, US indifference to environmental issues facing our world.

The environmental justice (EJ) movement seeks to change that by giving disenfranchised communities — often communities of color — a voice and empowering them to organize and get involved in decision making processes.

The Aarhus Convention obliges its signatories to grant the public rights of access to information, participation in decision making process and access to justice on environmental issues.

I aspire to catalyze a paradigm shift in our approach at not only solving the most complex urban planning and environmental issues, but also in our approach to development, reclamation, and pollution mitigation through a holistic interdisciplinary planning process that considers biophysical constraints as well as socio - economic and social justice issues.