In 2003, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation began designating Potential Environmental Justice Areas (PEJA) for the purpose of providing public participation opportunities to disadvantaged communities during permitting deliberations. We developed NYenviroScreen to help stakeholders ...
climate change; cold; environmental justice; food insecurity; green space; health; heat; social work practice; sustainability; weather extremes1. Introduction Environmental justice is the philosophy that all peoples and communities are entitled to equal protection under environmental health laws and ...
Commission for Racial Justice, United Church of Christ (UCC). Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States: A National Report on the Racial and Socioeconomic Characteristics of Communities with Hazardous Waste Sites; United Church of Christ: New York, NY, USA, 1987. [Google Scholar] Huang, H...
Open Space InstituteNew York, NY, USA Position Title: Conservation Communities Manager Reports To: Vice President of Conservation Communities Department: Conservation Communities Location: OSI’s NYC Office – Midtown Work Arrangement: Hybrid: in office 3- 4 days per week, and in accordance with bus...
Open Space Institute New York, NY, USA Position Title: Conservation Communities Manager Reports To: Vice President of Conservation Communities Department: Conservation Communities Location: OSI’s NYC Office – Midtown Work Arrangement: Hybrid: in office 3- 4 days per week, and in accordance with...
Despite the NRC’s 2008 and 2009 admonitions to the EPA, the real-world challenge the environmental-justice movement most wanted addressed — the interaction of chemical stressors and nonchemical stressors, both of which were disproportionately high in disadvantaged communities [142] — had not attr...
The Brownfields Economic Redevelopment Initiative is designed to empower States, communities and other stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together in a timely manner to prevent, assess, safely clean up and sustainable reuse brownfields. A brownfield is a site, or a portion thereof, that ...
New Orleans communities were destroyed and lives uprooted as water came cascading onto the Bayou. Did the damage have to be so devastating? Politics and Policy Environmental Justice and the NIMBY Principle In whose backyard does our hazardous waste end up?
Twenty-three Republican attorneys general are attacking the Biden administration’s stated goal of pursuing environmental justice. April 18 Why is the EPA regulating PFAS and what are these ‘forever chemicals’? The Environmental Protection Agency announced new limits on certain types of PFAS chemical...
Hoosick Falls NY's water supply has been contaminated More >> It affects: Our Children Our Families Our Communities Our Environment Every day. Napoli Shkolnik’s dedicated team of environmental litigation attorneys will determine liability and pursue justice for those affected by contaminated water, ...