What
Is Environmental Justice?
A broad based definition.
Environmental Justice Cases Studies
This page was developed at the University of Michigan. It provides detailed examples of EJ case studies, local, national, and international.
Environmental
Justice in Minority Populations
Full text of the president's executive order.
EJRC
Environmental Justice Resource Center - A page full of information from Clark Atlanta University.
NEJAC Home Page
The National Environmental Justice Advisory Council is a federal advisory
committee that provides independent advice, consultation, and recommendations
to the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
on matters related to environmental justice.
EPA - Environmental
Justice
Homepage for the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Solid
Waste and Emergency Response page on environmental justice.
Environmental
Justice Database
From the folks at Michigan State University. This data base is filled with
articles and information.
Environmental
Justice Clinic
The Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Environmental Justice Clinic is a
public interest, environmental project founded in 1994 to lend the expertise
and commitment of the Civil Rights and Environmental Movement to disenfranchised
minority and low-income communities in Texas and neighboring states throughout
the South, burdened by various environmental abuses.
Native Americans and the Environment
This site is full of articles on the topic.
Environmental
Justice in the Arctic
A nice site examining the plight of indigenous peoples in the region.
Environmental Justice : Congressional Quarterly Researcher
Offers an introduction to the topic, behind the scenes political information, a time line, and much more.
EarthAction
Home Page
A Global Network for the Environment, Peace and Social Justice.
Institute for
Ecology & Action Anthropology
INFOE was founded in January 1987 by scientists, journalists and other
committed individuals. They do work for embattled communities around the
world.
Sierra Club--Human
Rights and the Environment Campaign
To help defend these human rights, including the right to organize
to protect the environment and the right to have access to full and accurate
information about the environment in which one lives, public awareness
of oppressive conditions must be raised in the U.S. and throughout the
world.
On
The Road From Environmental Racism to Environmental Justice
An article from the Villanova Journal of Environmental Law.
Martin
Luther King and Environmental Justice
An article entitled "Ethics, The Legacy of the reverend Doctor Martin
Luther King, Jr. and the Movement Toward Environmental Justice" in
Touro Environmental Law Journal.
Dumping
in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality
Full text of chapter two of a book on the subject.
Environmental
Liberty and Social Justice for All
An article focusing on more equitable social organizing.
A Winning
Hand?
An article examining the uncertain future of environmental justice
By Christopher H. Foreman, Jr. From the Brookings Institution.