Environmental Studies
Environmental Justice
EnviroLink's Environmental Justice
http://www.envirolink.org/topics.html?topic=Environmental%20Justice&topicsku=2002119143538&topictype=subtopic
(Last checked 02/25/08)
Environmental Defense Fund
http://www.edf.org/home.cfm
Environmental Defense is dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. Among these rights are clean air and water, healthy and nourishing food, and a flourishing ecosystem. The site provides an extensive collection of online publications on biodiversity, environmental justice, climate change, health, and oceans. These publications include reports, testimony, factsheets, educational materials, letters, newsletters and a complete catalog of publications. The site also includes links to other websites produced by the Fund, including Scorecard, a site that repackages and interprets data produced by the EPA on toxic chemicals, health effects, and other topics.
(Last checked 02/25/08)
Environmental Justice / Environmental Racism
http://www.ejnet.org/ej/
(Last checked 02/25/08)
Environmental Justice Database
http://web1.msue.msu.edu/msue/imp/modej/masterej.html
(Last checked 02/25/08)
Environmental Justice Geographic Assessment Tool
http://www.epa.gov/enviro/ej/
An online mapping tool to locate facilities by a city, county, state, ZIP code, watershed, EPA region, latitude/longitude, facility or address. The site enables the user to select layers of data: Superfund, toxic release, water discharge, air emission, or hazardous waste sites, railroads, highways, streets, air and water monitors, flood hazard zones, and other data. After selecting data layers, the user can select from a list of demographic data including population density, per capita income, percent minority, percent below poverty, educational attainment, population under 18 years of age, age of the homes, and percent of the population who speak English less than well. Includes Census Bureau data on income and housing tenure (owner or rental occupied). The site also provides links to maps and health data gathered by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) on the incidence of heart disease, cancers, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pneumonia, and influenze, and liver disease. Data are available by gender or race for blacks and whites. The site also includes a comparison tool that allows the user to map estimated median cancer risk all carcinogens using the National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment (NATA).
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Environmental Justice in the Great Lakes Region
http://www.great-lakes.net/envt/refs/envtjust.html
A web page provided by the Great Lakes Information Network (GLIN).
(Last checked 02/25/08)
EPA : Environmental Justice
http://www.epa.gov/Compliance/environmentaljustice/index.html
Environmental Justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. EPA has this goal for all communities and persons across this Nation. It will be achieved when everyone enjoys the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards and equal access to the decision-making process to have a healthy environment in which to live, learn, and work.
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EPA : Environmental Justice and Compliance Online (ECHO)
http://www.epa-echo.gov/echo/index.html
"Use ECHO to determine whether: Compliance inspections have been conducted by EPA or state/local governments; violations were detected; or enforcement actions were taken and penalties were assessed in response to environmental law violations." The search results include links to detailed facility profiles that provide demographic data for the local community at one, three, or five mile radiuses. These profiles include information on the number of households, population density, persons living in poverty or on public assistance, educational attainment, and breakdowns by age or race. The site also includes a search for EPA Enforcement Cases, which provides publicly available federal EPA civil enforcement data tracked by the Integrated Compliance Information System for cases concluded by 09/30/2000. For earlier or active cases, check Enforcement and Compliance Document and Information Center (ECDIC). Search for archived documents by violator or docket number.
(Last checked 02/25/08)
EPA : Environmental Justice In Waste Program
http://www.epa.gov/oswer/ej/index.html
EPA defines Environmental Justice (EJ) as the "fair treatment for people of all races, cultures, and incomes, regarding the development of environmental laws, regulations, and policies." Over the last decade, attention to the impact of environmental pollution on particular segments of our society has been steadily growing. Concern that minority populations and/or low-income populations bear a disproportionate amount of adverse health and environmental effects, led President Clinton to issue Executive Order 12898 in 1994, focusing Federal agency attention on these issues. EPA responded by developing the Environmental Justice Strategy which focuses on the Agency's efforts in addressing these concerns.
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Green Action for Health and Environmental Justice
http://www.greenaction.org/
An activist group focused issues at the community level in California and the Soutwest.
(Last checked 02/25/08)
Harvard University
Working Group on Environmental Justice
http://ecojustice.net/
Issues of environmental justice are growing in importance in several areas. On the domestic front it has long been recognized that environmental amenities on the one hand and toxic waste sites on the other are not uniformly distributed in reference to income group, class or ethnic communities. On an international scale as well there are marked and increasing disparities in the world community between those who have access to clean and safe resources and those who do not. Disparities of this nature may be the result of historical circumstance, contemporary economic and trade relations or simply inadequate or inappropriate governmental regulation. Whatever their source, it is clear that an interdisciplinary approach is needed both to understand and ameliorate these problems.
(Last checked 02/25/08)
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