Sentences with phrase «with environmental justice»

The next Annual Environmental Law Symposium is scheduled for late January or early February 2018, and will examine how the legal landscape contends with environmental justice issues.

The 2017 special issue will examine how the legal landscape contends with environmental justice issues.

«My experience with the Environmental Justice Clinic has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my professional career.

Cole is a future physician who also is deeply engaged with environmental justice and journalism.

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 justice issues.

Background information: Nigeria: A new generation fights for a pollution free future — Amnesty International Interview with Fyneface D. Fyneface California Environmental Justice Alliance Action Cap and Clear - Cut: Article in East Bay Express California plays fast and loose with environmental justice and climate science: Friends of the Eath — US Food & Water Watch comments on expanding California's Cap - and - Trade Program in include REDD credits

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Monday's settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Justice and the California Air Resources Board resolves an investigation of the South Korean carmakers» 2012 overstatement of fuel economy ratings.

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

«We're always going to be looking at social justice, we're always going to be looking at environmental justice, we're always going to be looking at being on the right side of history, especially with millennials and our audience,» Smith said.

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.»

Horowitz combines four decades as a socially conscious marketer with personal environmental / social justice activism.

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.

It is an ideology seizing threads of environmental, social, racial, and economic justice, and interweaving them with strands of multiculturalism, gender discourse, gay rights, queer theory, post-colonialism, and anti-capitalism.

They were strongly committed to global issues of justice, to specific ministries with those at the margin of our own society, to peacemaking, and to environmental concerns.

We are well used to such Evangelicals, sharing with them the doctrinal and moral essentials of classical Christianity, a commitment to the Augustinian patrimony of the West, recent remarkable joint statements on justification, and much common work for the sanctity of life, Biblical standards of sexual morality, social justice, environmental responsibility and world peace.

We develop young leaders who are committed to social and environmental justice and are equipped with a sense of awe for natural and human beauty, tools for non-violent multicultural community building, as well as the confidence to make positive change in our families, communities and world.

The story begins in Berkeley, California (where there are quite significant income and health disparities), and explores how food justice intersects with education, local agriculture, nutrition literacy and environmental policy.

Chris Amato, a staff attorney for Earth Justice and former official with the state's Department of Environmental Conservation, said his organization has experienced delays at that agency and the Public Service Commission that have made it difficult to weigh in on policy proposals.

The party shares in the mission of many of the worldwide Green Parties and generally supports a left - leaning, liberal platform on the American political spectrum with an emphasis on the core tenets of environmental protection, social justice, grassroots democracy, and pacifism.

Ron Deutsch is with New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, a coalition of unions, environmental and social justice groups.

«We can be the party that represents economic, social, and environmental justice for all, but our message must be clear, and we must act in integrity with our words.

I'd add more environmental and social justice themes into that mix but it's a good list to begin with.

The head of the environmental justice program at the EPA has stepped down, departing the government with a lengthy letter to Pruitt, urging him not to kill the agency's programs.

Kerin believes in government which is fiscally responsible, managing our economic needs hand - in - hand with our environmental, social, cultural, and criminal justice responsibilities.

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.

Environmental justice is the fair treatment of all people regardless of race or income with respect to environmEnvironmental justice is the fair treatment of all people regardless of race or income with respect to environmentalenvironmental issues.

He's an old - school green foe who has voted against clean energy and environmental justice, sided with polluters rather than residents, and consistently sought to block the protection of endangered species and our natural heritage.»

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. and Council member Annabel Palma, the head of the Bronx Council delegation, joined up with other Council members and environmental justice advocates at City Hall today to rail against Mayor Bloomberg's plan to shelve the building of four new waste transfer stations — three Manhattan and one Brooklyn.

«We are disappointed with the Assembly decision to ignore the unified voice of New York's environmental, climate justice and neighborhood groups — at the very moment the federal government is rolling back environmental protections,» the statement read.

New York City and cities across the country will stand in solidarity with people fighting to advance the causes of racial, social, environmental and economic justice.»

With Cuomo: Served as the executive deputy attorney general for social justice for entire attorney general term, handling cases related to civil rights, environmental protection, health care and labor.

The largest state worker union, the Civil Service Employees Association, calls it corporate welfare and a «tax giveaway to business at the expense of local communities and middle class jobs,» Ron Deutsch is with New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, a coalition of unions, environmental and social justice groups.

Seeking to connect with black voters in advance of the New York primary, Clinton touted the need to overhaul the justice system, combat environmental racism and increase financial stability for minorities.

A Canisius College graduate, Fisher has named ground - level, city - focused economic development as a priority, along with increased training center funding and environmental justice.

The Green Party of New York State joined today with other environmental, social and economic justice activists to demand action on climate change by government at all levels.

That's partly because traffic speed and certain environmental effects are easier to measure than social - justice considerations, such as access to job opportunities or health care for low - income groups, or balancing the interests of pedestrians and cyclists with those of motorists.

Formed in 2000, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB) is an environmental health and justice organization working with communities that neighbor the state's oil refineries and chemical plants.

In a new study published in the journal PLOS One, Jennifer Horney, PhD, associate professor and head of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Texas A&M School of Public Health, along with researchers from Texas A&M and the Pacific Northwest National Lab, examined concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) before and after Hurricane Harvey in the Houston environmental justice neighborhood of Manchester.

«Environmental justice» means no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens thEnvironmental justice» means no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens thenvironmental burdens than any other.

By connecting social justice with economic development and sustainability goals, such a Green New Deal would go a long way toward dismantling the fundamental causes of environmental health inequalities.

Contaminants affect the ability of tribes to live and raise children in their traditional ways, said Elizabeth Hoover, an assistant professor of ethnic and American studies at Brown University who has worked with the Anishinaabe and other tribes on environmental justice issues.

Although the analysis does not consider equity and environmental justice issues, compact housing with specific income or racial demographics could raise such concerns.

ALA also found, by overlaying census data with pollution maps, that Americans with the lowest incomes face higher risks of harm from air pollution, underscoring what environmental justice advocates have been saying for years.

In 2003, an academic - community collaboration called the Environmental Justice Partnership (EJP) was launched, bringing together faculty and staff from the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions with a community board that includes East Baltimore residents, leaders and members from local organizations.

In collaboration with scientific colleagues and regulatory scientists, she has worked to develop scientifically valid and transparent tools for assessing the cumulative impacts of chemical and non-chemical stressors to improve regulatory decision - making and environmental policy in ways that advance environmental justice.

Hayes is interested in the impact of chemical contaminants on environmental health and public health, with a specific interest in the role of pesticides in global amphibian declines and environmental justice concerns associated with targeted exposure of racial and ethnic minorities to endocrine disruptors and the role that exposure plays in health care disparities.

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

Leah runs, manages, directs and is the front woman of the musical group Rising Appalachia, and together with her sister Chloe and their band, they have invested their lives into using the power of the stage for political, social, and environmental justice.

I've never seen such a label on fish oil, and neither did the Environmental Justice Foundation, and so they sued CVS, GNC, Rite - Aid, along with the major fish oil manufacturers.