Surf these sites: Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) -- Working to protect and shape the environment of Asian and Pacific Islanders in the San Francisco Bay area through democratic participation. Canadian Environmental Defence Fund (CEDF) -- helps citizens gain access to environmental justice, by providing fund-raising assistance; legal, scientific, planning and engineering referrals; and organizational support to grassroots groups pursuing nationally significant environmental law cases. Charlotte Women for Environmental Justice -- Founded by the Women of PAW Creeek in response to contamination and toxins that are being dumped in North Carolina on areas that are primarily minority and low income in population. Coalition for the Advancement of Human Rights and Environmental Justice -- concerned with human rights and environmental concerns throughout the world Concerned Citizens of Tillery -- CCT was built upon the work of previous organizations that had toiled for Civil Rights, Social, and Environmental Justice for African-Americans in Tillery and Halifax County, North Carolina. Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund -- Formerly the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, it is the law firm for the environment. Earthlaw - Environmental Law in the Public Interest -- The West''s foremost nonprofit, environmental law group uses the law to defend the West''s forests, air, water, and biodiversity. That''s a long way of saying we use the law to stop bad guys from harming the environment. EnviroWatch -- Our mission is to assist in putting an end to environmental injustice by way of exposing environmental degradation,habitat destruction,pollution, clearcutting, animal cruelty and government waste, fraud and abuse. Environmental Justice -- from the About.com Guide Environmental Justice -- North Carolina State University paper analyzing the problems associated with environmental inequities. Environmental Justice -- Greenaction is a new organization created by community groups in the southwest United States and former Greenpeace staff who have joined together in the struggle for health and environmental justice. Environmental Justice Clinic - Thurgood Marshall School of Law -- 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 that are burdened by various environmental abuses. Environmental Justice Database -- Michigan State University database. Environmental Justice Information Page -- University of Michigan site intended to supply information to students and the general public about Environmental Justice and about some of the current topics. Environmental Justice Resource Center -- at Clark Atlanta University. Environmental Justice Strategy -- The EPA''s strategy for implementing President Clinton''s issued Executive Order 12898, focuses Federal attention on the environmental and human health conditions of minority communities and low-income communities and calls on agencies to make achieving environmental justice part of their mission. Environmental Justice and the NIMBY Principle -- Report which strives to dispell the truths behind the "not in my backyard" environmental ploys, and offers reasons why poorer communities often bear the blunt of hazardous waste disposal. Environmental Research Foundation - Home -- News and resources for environmental justice. Providing understandable scientific information about human health and the environment. Envirosense: Environmental Justice (EJ) -- President Clinton''s Executive Order on environmental justice and other information related to the U.S. environmental justice movement and government response. IGC: EcoJustice Network -- Many good links IUCN Law Programme -- To assist in laying the strongest possible legal foundation for the conservation of the natural environment, thereby underpinning and supporting efforts at both national and international levels. Indigenous Environmental Network -- "An alliance of Indigenous Peoples protecting the sacredness of Mother Earth and building sustainable communities. ... We support basic principles of environmental justice - the rights of people to a clean environment regardless of race, economic position, gender, or national identity." Based in Minnesota. Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health -- U.S. government minority health initiative. Health areas of interest include infant mortality, HIV/AIDS, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and child and adult immunizations. Ma''at Youth Academy -- MYA helps high school students and adults in San Francisco Bay area communities of color and low-income areas, make their communities healthier and safer for all species. Natural Resources Defense Council -- An environmental organization that uses law and science to protect the planet and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things. Nindakin''s Web Page -- Nindakin is a group dedicated to fostering student of color leadership and empowerment around community environmental justice issues. We originated at the University of California at Berkeley in 1991 and are comprised of people of color active in social and environmental justice struggles. Office of Minority Health Resource Center -- A U.S. national resource and referral service on minority health issues. OMH-RC collects and distributes information on a wide variety of health topics, including substance abuse, cancer, heart disease, violence, diabetes, HIV/AIDS and infant mortality, regarding American Indian and Alaska Native, African American, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and Hispanic populations. One World Online -- impressive site bringing together 350 organisations concerned with human rights, sustainable development and the environment Shell-Shocked: The environmental and social costs of living with Shell in Nigeria -- from Greenpeace International. South Central Oklahoma Environmental Justice Resource Center -- The Resource Center is a fully computerized, modern facility that provides access to a variety of environmental databases relevant to environmental justice, GIS, legal research tools At least five terminals with access to these resources are available during the Center''s operating hours. Southeast Alliance for Environmental Justice (SAEJ) -- San Francisco, California The Council of Europe and the Environment -- CEE was founded 50 years ago with the aim of constructing a peaceful and united Europe, sharing the common values of respect for human rights, pluralist democracy and the rule of law. The Environmental Justice Newsletter -- United Methodist Church The world wide web brings a story on environmental racism to light. -- How Rudy Brueggemann''s graduate thesis on environmental racism (and a landfill in Holly Springs, North Carolina) was discovered on the web. U.S. EPA Environmental Justice Home Page -- The objective of environmental justice activities is to ensure that each federal agency shall conduct its programs, policies, and activities that substantially affect human health or the environment in a manner that ensures that such programs, policies, and activities do not have the effect of excluding persons (including populations) from participation in, denying persons (including populations) the benefits of, or subjecting persons (including populations) to discrimination under, such programs, policies, and activities because of their race, national origin or income. West Harlem Environmental Action -- The first step toward environmental justice must be an awareness of the hazards. WEACT has an ongoing commitment to enhance community awareness of environmental hazards in northern Manhattan. Working Group on Environmental Justice -- A group of scholars and activists committed to doing further research and promoting effective action to advance the cause of environmental justice.
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