Resources :: Committing to Environmental Justice
Earthjustice works through the courts on behalf of citizen groups, scientists, and other parties to ensure government agencies and private interests follow the law. On Capitol Hill, we work to protect and strengthen federal environmental laws and preserve special places, like the Arctic.
Environmental Justice Foundation
EJF is a large, global organization raising awareness for and protecting particularly vulnerable and impoverished communities, especially in the Third World.
Indigenous Environmental Network
“A network of Indigenous Peoples empowering Indigenous Nations and communities towards sustainable livelihoods, demanding environmental justice and maintaining the Sacred Fire of our traditions.”
Environmental justice is typically a regionally issue, but CWA has united cities across America behind the common cause of healthy natural water supplies.
Environmental Justice Resource Center
Led by Dr. Robert Bullard, the father of the environmental justice movement, the EJRC is still the best resource for scholarly reports on the issue.
SWOP was the first to demand large, national environmental groups begin recognizing environmental injustice, and empowers low-income, minority communities in New Mexico.
Communities can often organize around a particularly contentious issue, but what happens a year or two later? The ESC helps local environmental group stay strong over time.
The Right to Know Network protects public access to information pertaining to their environmental health and pushes for government to make new information available.
Advocates for Enviornmental Rights
Advocates for Environmental Human Rights (“AEHR”) is a nonprofit, public interest law firm whose mission is to provide legal services, community organizing support, public education, and campaigns focused on defending and advancing the human right to a healthy environment, and advocating for the human rights of internally displaced Gulf Coast hurricane survivors.
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