environmental justice organizing

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[ed:  the message below is actually a follow-up to an 
announcement post, but contains information on environmental 
justice organizing I thought all might find interesting.  The original 
post is at the end of the message.]

From: "EJ Coalition" <ejcoalition at msn.com>

Special thanks to the Anti-Racist Environmental Coalition (listed 
below) for stepping up and linking the EJC site. Gives us 
international support.  

Request for comments, please add the site to your links page and 
share with your colleagues.  The interest level is high. Republican 
sponsorship is possible.  With a little luck, things could move fast. 
Let's celebrate a new law before the end of the year.   

The Environmental Justice Coalition (EJC) seeks to develop an 
Environmental Justice Act (EJA) to provide the framework for 
protecting communities with the poorest health, greatest 
concentration of environmental pollutants or least economic 
development from additional sources of pollution.  The EJC will 
also develop an EJA that will provide communities with the poorest 
health, greatest concentration of environmental pollution or least 
economic development with mechanisms to attract sustainable 
development projects. The EJA will provide communities with the 
means to participate in the environmental permitting process and 
will provide applicants for environmental permits with certainty 
regarding site selection.  

http://groups.msn.com/environmentaljusticecoalition
(301) 265-8185

>From: Anti-Racist Environmental Coalition <arec at yorku.ca>
>To: EJ Coalition <ejcoalition at msn.com>
>Subject: Re: Environmental Justice Act of 2003
>Date: Wed,  5 Feb 2003 16:38:51 -0500
>
>hi there:
>
>I've added EJC to our links page: www.yorku.ca/arec/links.htm
>
>Quoting EJ Coalition <ejcoalition at msn.com>:
>
> > Please add us to your links page:
> >
> > The Environmental Justice Coalition (EJC) seeks to develop an 
>Environmental
> > Justice Act (EJA) to provide the framework for protecting 
communities 
>with
> > the poorest health, greatest concentration of environmental 
pollutants 
>or
> > least economic development from additional sources of 
pollution.  The 
>EJC
> > will also develop an EJA that will provide communities with the 
poorest
> > health, greatest concentration of environmental pollution or 
least 
>economic
> > development with mechanisms to attract sustainable 
development projects. 
>The
> >
> > EJA will provide communities with the means to participate in 
the
> > environmental permitting process and will provide applicants 
for
> > environmental permits with certainty regarding site selection.
> >
> > http://groups.msn.com/environmentaljusticecoalition
> > (301) 265-8185
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 
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>Anti-Racist Environmental Coalition
>3rd floor, Lumbers Building
>York University
>4700 Keele St.
>North York, ON M3J 1P3
>arec at yorku.ca
>http://www.yorku.ca/arec

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>>original post>>

From: "EJ Coalition" <ejcoalition at msn.com>

Congress is finally getting itself reestablished for the 108th 
Congress.  Committee assignments are finalized and the House is 
back from a two week break. It is time to get serious about passing 
an EJ Act in the 108th Congress.  

If you have suggestions about the legislative language, now is the 
time to submit your comments.  The website bill is a working draft 
that combines the best elements of all of the previous EJ bills with 
current data.  Share your thoughts.  

The EJ Coalition has met with House and Senate leadership staffs 
to discuss the EJ Act concept: Senate: Frist, Inhofe, Warner, 
McCain, Carper, Lott; House: Boehlert, Tauzin, Solis, Udall, Wynn, 
Lewis, Towns, Gillmor.  Ideally, Inhofe and Tauzin as sponsors 
introducing the bill would be ideal and would probably lead to 
easier passage.  Realistically, if we can get a McCain or Boehlert, 
we might still have a good chance for passage.  Regardless, 
February is the month to get Republican lead sponsorship and 
corresponding Democratic support.  EJC has an aggressive 
lobbying campaign for February.  If you can't lobby, please 
consider this email an informational contact.  

The Environmental Justice Coalition (EJC) seeks to develop an 
Environmental Justice Act (EJA) to provide the framework for 
protecting communities with the poorest health, greatest 
concentration of environmental pollutants or least economic 
development from additional sources of pollution.  The EJC will 
also develop an EJA that will provide communities with the poorest 
health, greatest concentration of environmental pollution or least 
economic development with mechanisms to attract sustainable 
development projects. The EJA will provide communities with the 
means to participate in the environmental permitting process and 
will provide applicants for environmental permits with certainty 
regarding site selection.  


http://groups.msn.com/environmentaljusticecoalition
(301) 265-8185