1) Environmental Justice affirms the sacredness of Mother Earth, ecological unity and the interdependence of all species, and the right to be free from ecological destruction. 2) Environmental Justice ...
They want to obliterate it,” he said. The environmental justice movement is decades old — President Bill Clinton signed an executive order recognizing its importance 30 years ago — but it ...
The environmental justice movement was born in 1982 in Warren County, North Carolina, when residents united in protesting the illegal dumping of a class of toxic chemicals called PCBs in their ...
The environmental justice movement grew in response to the disproportionate environmental burdens communities of color and low-income communities bear including pollution, industrial production and ...
His work provided the foundation for the modern-day environmental justice movement. This week on CityLine Hessann Farooqi, Executive Director of The Boston Climate Action Network on what his ...
About a decade ago, as frontline-led environmental justice groups came together to create a new center of gravity in the climate movement, a group of climate justice leaders, including me, began ...