PCR -- Additional EJ Links

The Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice is a non-profit organization with its main office located in Riverside, California. The goal of the Center is to build a strong movement for change that recognizes the connections between environmental and worker exploitation, and oppression on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation and class, and incorporates that connection in the primary activities of the Center.

http://www.nyceja.org/

The New York City Environmental Justice Alliane is a city-wide network that links grass roots organizations low-income neighborhoods and communities of color (EJ communities) in their struggle against environmental racism.

http://www.ejfoundation.org/

The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) works to protect the natural environment and the people and wildlife that depend upon it by linking environmental security, human rights and social need. EJF is an international organization dedicated to training and supporting local activists, communities and organizations in the developing world, helping them to bring environmental injustice to national and international attention.

http://www.chej.org/

The Center for Health Environment and Justice (CHEJ) believes in environmental justice, the principle that people have the right to a clean and healthy environment regardless of their race or economic standing. Their experience has shown them that the most effective way to win environmental justice is from the bottom up through community organizing and empowerment. CHEJ's mission is to give people the tools they need to bring it about this sort of empowerment. We carry out this mission by providing people with technical information and the training to use this information to organize to fight for their rights.

http://www.ccej.org/

The Community Coalition for Environmental Justice are a people of color-led, multiethnic nonprofit organization working on social, economic and environmental health issues that disproportionately impact people of color, refugee, indigenous, immigrant, and low income communities. Their mission is to build a community coalition, which identifies and eliminates environmental injustice, and advocates for and creates environmental justice.

http://www.epa.gov/oswer/ej/aboutej.htm

The Environmental Protection Agency’s website on environmental justice.

http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/

The Environmental Justice Resource Center (EJRC) at Clark Atlanta University was formed to serve as a research, policy, and information clearinghouse on issues related to environmental justice, race and the environment, civil rights, facility siting, land use planning, brownfields, transportation equity, suburban sprawl, and Smart Growth. The overall goal of the center is to assist, support, train, and educate people of color students, professionals, and grassroots community leaders with the goal of facilitating their inclusion into the mainstream of environmental decision-making.

http://www.xula.edu/dscej/

The mission of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ) is to provide opportunities for communities, scientific researchers and decision makers to promote the rights of all people to be free from environmental harm as it impacts health, jobs, housing, education, and a general quality of life. The DSCEJ strives to achieve partnership between universities and communities; interaction between program components, and legacy.

http://www.environmentaldefense.org/home.cfm

Environmental Defense brings together experts in science, law and economics to tackle complex environmental issues that affect our oceans, our air, our natural resources, the livability of our man-made environment, and the species with whom we share our world. They are a leading national nonprofit organization that produces print and email newsletters, fact sheets and educational materials on "green" behavior and business practices that can help sustain and improve our environment.

http://www.ienearth.org/subject.html

The Indigenous Environmental Network is an alliance of grassroots indigenous peoples whose mission is to protect the sacredness of Mother Earth from contamination and exploitation by strengthening maintaining and respecting the traditional teachings and the natural laws.

http://www.msue.msu.edu/msue/imp/modej/masterej.html

The Environmental Justice database is a site with a large list of references focusing on topics that relates to the environment. You can search the database by keyword (i.e. African Americans) or by subject.

http://www.copeen.org/Default.htm

The Colorado People's Environmental and Economic Network (COPEEN) was formed by residents of Northeast Denver in 1994, as a proactive, grassroots response to grave environmental injustices perpetrated against their communities.

http://www.cbecal.org/

Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) is an environmental health and justice non-profit organization, promoting clean air, clean water and the development of toxin-free communities. CBE's unique three-part strategy provides grassroots activism, environmental research and legal assistance within economically depressed urban communities. CBE directly equips residents impacted by industrial pollution with the tools to inform, monitor, and transform their immediate environment.

http://www.creativelement.com/%7Egwen/locform.html

http://www.publicampaign.org/

Public Campaign is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to sweeping reform that aims to dramatically reduce the role of big special interest money in American politics. Public Campaign is laying the foundation for reform by working with a broad range of organizations, including community groups around the country that are fighting for change in their states and national organizations whose members are not fairly represented under the current system.

http://www.enn.com/

The Environmental News Network is not an activist publication, but instead they try to present information from all sides, enabling you to come to your own conclusions regarding each story. They make available space for non-profit organizations to tell their own stories directly. They encourage non-profit organizations and community to groups to share the information and experiences.

http://www.tsulaw.edu/environ/enviropg.htm

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.

http://www.scorecard.org/

Scorecard allows you to find out what chemicals and pollutants are in your own community, and also provides information about environmental issues.

http://www.state.(your state’s initials here).us

You can get the homepage of your state by inserting the two initials for your state in the blank in the following address: www.state.__.us. Using your state homepage allows you to contact state agencies and officials with ease.