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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE RESOURCES

Information presented in this document is provided for general informational purposes. The inclusion of an organization or agency does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorsement of the entity or their views by the WA State Department of Ecology.


Please contact Millie Piazza at ECY for corrections or additions:
Millie M. Piazza

Environmental Justice Coordinator

WA State Department of Ecology

mpia461@ecy.wa.gov

phone (360) 407-6177

fax (360) 407-6715

SELECTED EJ RESOURCES
BOOKS
Agyeman, Julian. Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental Justice. New York University Press, August, 2005.
Agyeman, Julian and Robert Bullard, Bob Evans. Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World

Earthscan, 2002.


Brown, Phil and Mikkelsen, Edwin. No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia and Community Action. UC Berkley Press, 1997.
Bryant, Bunyan and Paul Mohai, eds. Race and the Incidence of Environmental Hazards. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992.
Bryant, Bunyan, ed. Environmental Justice: Issues, Policies, and Solutions. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1995.
Bullard, Robert D., ed. Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices from the Grassroots. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1993. (SPIA)
Bullard, Robert D. ed. Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1994. (SPIA)
Bullard, Robert D. ed. Just Transportation: Dismantling Race & Class Barriers to Mobility. Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, 1997.
Camacho, David E., ed. Environmental Injustices, Political Struggles: Race, Class, and the Environment. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1998.
Cole, Luke W. and Sheila R. Foster. 2001. From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement. New York: New York University Press.
Corburn, Jason. Street Science: Community Knowledge & Environmental Health Justice. MIT Press, 2005.
Dobson, Andrew. Justice and the Environment: Conceptions of Environmental Sustainability and Dimensions of Social Justice. Oxford University Press, 1998.
Faber, Daniel, ed. The Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Environmental Justice Movements in the United States. New York and London: The Guilford Press, 1998.
First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit. "Principles of Environmental Justice." Adopted October 1991, Washington, D.C., in Foreman, Appendix B, pp. 145-147. http://www.igc.org/envjustice/info/ejprinciples.html

Foreman, Christopher, J., Jr. The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution Press, 1998.


Gottlieb, Robert. Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement. Island Press, 2005 (revised/updated).
Gottlieb, Robert. Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change. MIT Press, 2001.
Grossman, Elizabeth. High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics and Human Health. Island Press, 2006.
Hallsmith, Gwendolyn. The Key to Sustainable Cities: Meeting Human Needs, Transforming Community Systems. 256 pages. New Society, 2003.
Harvey, David. Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference. Blackwell Publishers, 1996.
Hershkowitz, Allen. Bronx Ecology: Blueprint for a New Environmentalism. Island Press, 2002.
Hofrichter, Richard, ed. Toxic Struggles: The Theory and Practice of Environmental Justice. Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers, 1993. (SPIA)
Institute of Medicine, Committee on Environmental Justice. Toward Environmental Justice: Research, Education, and Health Policy Needs. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1999.
Jace, Weaver, ed. Defending Mother Earth: Native American Perspectives on Environmental Justice. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1996, Chapter 1, pp. 29-46. E98.S67 D44 1996.
LaDuke, Winona. 1999. All Our Relations. Boston, South End Press.
Love, Dennis. My City Was Gone (Case study: Anniston, Alabama). Harper Perennial, 2007.
Manaster, Kenneth A. Environmental Protection and Justice: Readings and Commentary on Environmental Law and Practice. Cincinnati: Anderson Publishing Co., 1995.
McDonald, David A. ed. Environmental Justice in South Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press and Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press.
McGovern, Dan. The Campo Indian Landfill Wall: The Fight for Gold in California’s Garbage. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.
Pellow, David Naguib. Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice. MIT Press, 2007.
Pulido, Laura. Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest. Tuscon: The University of Arizona Press, 1996.
Revesz, Richard L. and Stewart, Richard B., eds. Analyzing Superfund: Economics, Science, and Law. In Resources for the Future. Washington, D.C., 1995.
Robbins, Richard. Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism. Allyn & Bacon; 4 edition, 2007.
Sandler Ronald and Pezzu, Phaedra, eds. Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement. MIT Press, 2007.
Schwab, Jim. Deeper Shades of Green: The Rise of Blue-Collar and Minority Environmentalism in America. Sierra Club Books, 1994.
Sen, Amartya. 1981. Poverty and Famines: An Essay On Entitlement and Deprivation. New York: Oxford University Press.
Simons, Robert A. Turning Brownfields into Greenbacks. Washington, D.C.: Urban Land Institute, 1998.
Szasz, Andrew. EcoPopulism: Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. (SPIA)
United Church of Christ, Commission for Racial Justice. Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States: A National Report on the Racial and Socio-Economic Characteristics of Communities with Hazardous Waste Sites. New York: Public Data Access, Inc., 1987.
Westra, Laura and Wenz, Peter, eds. Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice. (2nd edition) Rowman & Littlefield Pub, 2001.

ARTICLES
Agyeman, J. “Alternatives for Community and Environment: Where Justice and Sustainability Meet.” Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development. Vol 47, Num 6 / July-Aug 2005 pp. 10 - 23
Agyeman, J and B Evans. “Just sustainability': the emerging discourse of environmental justice in Britain?” The Geographical Journal, 2004.
Bowman, Ann O’M. and Kelley A. Crews-Meyer. "Locating Southern LULUs: Race, Class, and Environmental Justice." State and Local Government Review. Vol. 29, No. 2, Spring 1997, pp. 110-119. JS39.xG3.
Been, Vicki. "What’s Fairness Got To Do with It? Environmental Justice and the Siting of Locally Undesirable Land Uses." Cornell Law Review. Vol. 78, No. 6, September 1993, pp. 1068-1085 ("IV. Legislative Approaches to the Discriminatory Siting Problem"). 7600.267.
Collin, Robert W., Timothy Beatley, and William Harris. "Environmental Racism: A Challenge to Community Development." Journal of Black Studies. Vol. 25, No. 3, January 1995, pp. 354-377.
Forkenbrock, David J. and Lisa A. Schweitzer. "Environmental Justice in Transportation Planning." Journal of the American Planning Association. Vol. 65, No. 1, Winter 1999, pp. 96-111. NA9000.A49
Hamilton, James T. "Testing for Environmental Racism: Prejudice, Profits, Political Power?" Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Vol. 14, No. 1, 1995, pp. 107-132.
Kraft, Michael E. and Denise Scheberle. "Environmental Justice and the Allocation of Risk: The Case of Lead and Public Health." Policy Studies Journal. Vol 23, No. 1, Spring 1995, pp. 113-122.
Lambert, Thomas and Christopher Boerner. "Environmental Inequity: Economic Causes, Economic Solutions." Yale Journal on Regulation. Vol. 14, No. 1, Winter 1997, pp. 195-211 [full article is pp. 195-228]. K29.A37.
McWilliams, Douglas A. "Environmental Justice and Industrial Redevelopment: Economics and Equity in Urban Revitalization." Ecology Law Quarterly. Vol. 21, No. 3, 1994, pp. 705-783. K5.xC6.
Miller, Vernice D. "Planning, Power and Politics: A Case Study of the Land Use and Siting History of the North River Water Pollution Control Plant." Fordham Urban Law Journal. Vol. XXI, No. 3, Spring 1994, pp. 707-722. K6.073.
Verchick, Robert R. M. "In a Greener Voice: Feminist Theory and Environmental Justice." Harvard Women’s Law Journal. Vol. 19, Spring 1996, pp. 23-88. [full article is pp. 23-88]
JOURNALS
New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy. Based at University of Massachusetts/Lowell. Baywood Publishing. http://baywood.com

(Excellent source of analysis linking environment, labor, community, sustainability and social justice.)




GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
Executive Order 12898 - Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations. Clinton, President William J. The White House, February 11, 1994. (59 F.R. 7629, February 16, 1994), in Foreman, Appendix A, pp. 137-144. http://www.epa.gov/docs/oejpubs/execordr.txt.html
A Study on Environmental Equity in Washington State (October 1995). Washington State Department of Ecology. Publication Number 95-413
Final Report State Board of Health Priority: Environmental Justice (June, 2001). Washington State Board of Health.
Environmental Justice Guidance under the National Environmental Policy Act. U.S. Council on Environmental Quality. December 10, 1997, 34 pages. http://www.whitehouse.gov/CEQ/EJ.pdf
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "The EPA’s Environmental Justice Strategy." April 3, 1995, 16 pages. http://www.epa.gov/docs/oejpubs/strategy/strategy.txt.html
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5 Environmental Justice Team. "Draft Region 5 Interim Guidelines for Identifying and Addressing a Potential Environmental Justice Case." October 30, 1997, 8 pages. http://www.epa.gov/reg5rcra/wptdiv/ejpages/guideln.htm


COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Government:

  • During the legislative session follow the Select Committee on Environmental Health http://www1.leg.wa.gov/house/committees/envh

  • Attend a public hearing & provide public comment

Subscribe to Agency or Organization List serves:



  • Washington Department of Ecology News Releases

http://www.ecy.wa.gov/news/news.html

  • Collaborative on Health and the Environment, Washington

http://washington.chenw.org/






FILMS
Affluenza. (1997) 56 min. Director: de Graaf, J. KCTS Channel 9 Seattle. [Affluenza is a one-hour television special that explores the high social and environmental costs of materialism and overconsumption.]
Chemical Valley. (1991) 58 min. Directed by Mimi Pickering and Anne Johnson. [Union Carbide and differential impacts of industrial exposures.] http://appalshop.org/
China Blue. (2005) 86 min. Director: Peled, M. X. Teddy Bear Films, USA. [A clandestinely shot, deep-access account of how the clothes we buy are actually made – detailing the economic pressures applied by Western companies and the clear connection between the exploited workers and U.S. consumers.]
Creek Runs Red, The (2007). Kera, Native American Public Telecommunications. [Toxic legacy of lead mining at Superfund site, Pitcher, OK.] www.thecreekrunsred.com

Dangerous Business, A. (2004) 60 min. PBS. [Investigation of one of America's most dangerous industries - the iron pipe foundry business. Highlights workplace hazards, a key issue in EJ.] www.pbs.org

Dark Waters: The Duwamish River. (2003) Directed by Patricia O'Brien. Rugosa Films, Seattle.
Emperor's New Clothes: A Cautionary Tale of Free Trade, The. (1995) 53 min. Director: Isacsson, M., National Film Board of Canada. [Effects of economic globalization on workers in Canada, the US, and Mexico - profound effect of economic agreements between big business and government on human lives, including increased cuts to social programs, massive unemployment, environmental damage, and demoralization.]
Environmentalists Under Fire: 10 Urgent Cases of Human Rights Abuses. (1999) 21 min. Amnesty International & Sierra Club. [Video project that highlights nations where human rights abuses are being committed against environmental activists.] http://www.globalvision.org
Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia. (2002) 23 min. DVD. Producer The Basel Action Network, Seattle. [Documentary of the export of U.S. electronics waste to Asia and public health impacts.] www.ban.org
From the Mountains to the Maquiladoras. (1993) 25 min. Tennessee Industrial Renewal Network. [Film about the exporting of hazardous work to Mexico. Labor/environment/health/justice organizing.]
Globalization and Human Rights. (1998) 57 min. Documentary by Globalvision. [Broadcast nationally on PBS, explores the effects of the globalized economy on international human rights concerns and standards.] http://www.globalvision.org
Heavy Metal. (2005). [Metal mining & smelting, Idaho panhandle Silver Valley. Superfund, public health, worker/environmental exposures.] www.greenplanetfilms.org

Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street (1996) 58 min. Produced by Leah Mahan and Mark Lipman, Holding Ground Productions. [Documentary about community revitalization in Boston - Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, urban policies, illegal dumps.] http://www.newday.com/films/Holding_Ground.html
Legacy of Malthus, The. (1994) 52 min. Director Deepa Dhanraj. [Challenges the entrenched view that overpopulation is responsible for poverty and environmental degradation.] http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/
Let's Talk about the People. (1994) 28 min. Seattle, Eco-Sounders. [EJ in Seattle, youth environmental justice organizing.] http://www.govlink.org/hazwaste/schoolyouth/videos.htm
Mickey Mouse Goes to Haiti: Walt Disney and the Science of Exploitation. (1996) 21 min. Produced by the National Labor Committee. [An investigation into Disney's factories in Haiti where workers earn 7 cents for every pair of Disney pajamas she sews.]
Race: the Power of an Illusion. (2003) 3 episodes - 56 minutes each. Facilitator Guide Available Produced by California Newsreel. [This series can help us all navigate through our myths and misconceptions, and scrutinize some of the assumptions we take for granted and the notions about race we all hold.] http://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm
Right to be Mohawk, The. (1989) 17 min. Sunlight Productions. [Mohawk struggle to preserve their land, language, religion, history and world-view in the face of white demands and encroachments.]
Source to Sea: The Columbia River Swim. (2006) 90 min. Director: Norris, A. Goldeneye Films, USA. [Documents Christopher Swain’s 2003 swim of the entire 1,243 mile length of the Columbia River - highlights present-day challenges of the River through interviews with tribal members, agency representatives, fishers, authors, nonprofit leaders, and citizens.]
Stepan Chemical: The Poisoning of a Mexican Community. (1993) 18 min. [A look at efforts to force a cleanup at the Chicago-based Stepan chemical plant in Matamoros, Mexico and adopt environmentally safe and socially responsible practices; public health; social justice; cross-border solidarity.]
Toward a Green Growth Alliance: Birthing a New Politics. A speech by Van Jones. (2007) 30 min.

[Van Jones, founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, powerfully conveys how green collar jobs are a pathway out of poverty.] http://www.bioneers.org/


Toxic Gardens. (2003) 11 min. Director Patricia O'Brien. Rugosa Films. [A toxic plume is traveling under Georgetown homes. Community leaders in this historic Seattle neighborhood are struggling to clean up a poisonous industrial legacy.]
Toxic Trespass. (2007) 80 min. Director: Barri Cohen. National Film Board of Canada. Documentary about the relationship between environmental degradation and children's health. Toxic Trespass is accompanied by a comprehensive guidebook for educators, activists, and concerned citizens.
"Trade Secrets: A Moyers Report" on industrial hazards, worker health, working class communities. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2001.

Trading Democracy: A Bill Moyers Special. (2002) Produced by PBS. 60 min. [Moyers report on how NAFTA allows multi-national corporations to sue the government over environmental and health laws. Case studies of NAFTA-impacted communities facing toxic threats.]
Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? (2008) Episode 1 is 56 min; Episode 2-7 30 min each. Produced by California Newsreel. Discussion guide available. [Documentary series exploring racial and socioeconomic inequality in health. Covers racism, poverty, immigration, Native American displacement, urban centers, and globalization.] http://www.unnaturalcauses.org/
Witness to the Future : The Legacy of "Silent Spring" & A Call for Environmental Action. (1996) 50 min. Director Branda Miller. [Hanford Nuclear Reservation homes decimated by disease and birth defects, from radioactive gases released from the atomic plant. Covers EJ issues, Hanford WA, Chemical Alley, Louisiana; and Farmworkers, in Central Valley CA.] http://www.videoproject.com/wit-097-v.html



EJ INTERNET RESOURCES

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH & JUSTICE
Center for Health, Environment and Justice. Founded by Lois Gibbs, of Love Canal fame. Technical, legal, science information; strong social justice focus. www.chej.org
Institute for Children’s Environmental Health. Based in the Northwest. www.iceh.org
Washington Toxics Coalition. Resources on environmental health, strategies. www.watoxics.org
Community Coalition for Environmental Justice. Seattle-based, regional links. www.ccej.org
Environment & Health News. Resources on justice aspects of environmental health. www.rachel.org
Bluevinyl. Home base for the film “Blue Vinyl” on occupational/environmental impacts of plastics. Strong EJ focus. www.bluevinyl.org
Ecotrust and Tidepool. Northwest resource on sustainability, communities. www.ecotrust.org and www.tidepool.org
Sightline. Regional daily news service on sustainability, justice, communities. www.sightline.org

RIGHT-TO-KNOW GROUPS
RTK (extensive environmental databases). www.rtk.net
CRTK (Working Group on Right-to-Know). www.crtk.net
Scorecard (CRTK information, community/region data-system, and mapping on risks/programs). www.scorecard.org
IRTK (International RTK campaign). www.irtk.org
Environmental Health News (Daily coverage, policy analysis, justice focus). www.environmentalhealthnews.org
Collaborative for Health and the Environment. National network of health providers & advocates. Washington State chapter, with focus on EH – EJ connections. www.cheforhealth.org
Physicians for Social Responsibility (Nuclear, climate change, and environmental health). www.psr.org
Prevention Institute. Community health, disparities and strategies. www.prevention.org
WSPHA and WSEHA. Washington Public Health & Environmental Health. www.wspha.org and www.wseha.org
Safe Food and Fertilizer. Safe food and contamination of fertilizers, impacts on rural communities, farmworkers. www.safefoodandfertilizer.org
ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH & COMMUNITY
Alliance for Sustainable Jobs & Environment (labor-environmental alliance for fair trade). www.asje.org
Amnesty International Just Earth project. www.amnestyusa.org/justearth
Amnesty/Sierra Club joint project. www.defendtheearth.org
Asian-Pacific Environmental Exchange. www.a.p.e.x.org
Basel Action Network. Toxic trade, see “Global Toxics Progress Report Card” and associated links. www.ban.org
Center for International Environmental Law. www.ciel.org
Earthrights International (in “Defense of Human Rights & the Environment”). www.earthrights.org
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide. Based in Eugene, Oregon. Solidarity with environmental law efforts. For example, anti-incineration activism in South Africa. www.elaw.org
Friends of the Earth (see also “Greening Trade Agreements”). www.foe.org
Global Exchange (trade, justice journeys, etc.). www.globalexchange.org
International Persistent Organic Pollutants Elimination Network (global alliance pressing for bans and phase-out’s of Persistent Organic Pollutants). www.ipen.org
International Right-to-Know Campaign. www.irtk.org
Oil Watch (focus on oil companies impacts in the tropics). www.oilwatch.org
Project Underground (support for the “Human Rights of Communities Resisting Mining and Oil Exploitation”, see also “Communities Pipeline”) www.moles.org
Public Citizen (global trade watch). www.publiccitizen.org
Sierra Club. www.sierraclub.org/human-rights
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. www.un.org/overview/rights
Women Environment Development Organization. www.wedo.org
Working Group on Community RTK (US based). www.crtk.org



LABOR ORGANIZATIONS
Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment. Based in Portland, Oregon. Focused on a wide array of projects, particularly regarding Northwest resources (“Worker Friendly Approaches to Climate Change”).

www.asje.org
Clean Production, Sustainable Materials Economy and Life Cycle Accountability. Emerging concepts of interest to environmentalists, labor, business, designers and the science community. UMASS Lowell Department Center for Sustainable Production (includes Citizen’s Guide to Clean Production). www.uml.edu/centers/lcsp
Labour and Climate Change, Intl Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine & General Workers’ Unions, 2001. www.icem.org/climaen.html
Labor, Climate Change and the Environment. Major 1997 report on labor/environment links (Cornell’s Work Environment Institute). www.cfe.cornell.edu/wei/climate
Labor/Community Strategy Center, LA. Air quality, transport, sprawl, public right to public transport, taking on the fossil fuel economy at home and internationally. www.thestrategycenter.org
Northwestwatch. Greencollar Jobs: Working in the New Northwest by Alan Durning, Northwest Environmental Watch, 1999. www.northwestwatch.org
Just Transition Alliance. Coalition of frontline workers and fenceline communities. Labor/neighbor alliances toward safe communities, safe jobs. www.jtalliance.org
Environmental Justice & Climate Change. Coalition of EJ, climate change, religious, policy, labor, advocacy groups challenging ‘Big Energy’ lobby. www.ejcc.org
New York Council on Occupational Safety and Health. Coalition connecting a US network of worker health related resources and links. www.nycosh.org
Sprawlwatch Clearinghouse. Talking to Union Leaders About Smart Growth. A project exploring how working people and their unions should be challenging sprawl, car dependency and deficient community planning. www.goodjobsfirst.org and www.sprawlwatch.org

DATA
RSEI. The Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators is a computer-based screening tool developed by EPA that analyzes risk factors to put Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) release data into a chronic health context.

http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/rsei/
EPA's Environmental Justice Geographic Assessment Tool. Supports an analysis of adverse health or environmental impacts, aggregate or cumulative impacts, unique exposure pathways, vulnerable or susceptible populations, or lack of capacity to participate in the decision-making process.

http://www.epa.gov/enviro/ej/
Enviromapper. Internet application that uses the same data from above (more general).

http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/em/


VIDEO
Majora Carter's speech "Greening the Ghetto."

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/53
A Documentary about Electronic Waste Dumping from the US to China.

http://michaelzhao.net/


WEB SITES ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Environmental Justice Resource Center. Clark Atlanta University, Robert Bullard, Director. http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/
Environmental Justice Skeptic’s Web page. Has links to web pages critical of environmental justice claims and EPA actions. http://www.carnell.com/environment_health/environmental_justice/
US EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. Office of Environmental Justice home page http://es.epa.gov/oeca/oej/
New York University Center for Environmental and Land Use Law. U.S. Environmental Justice home page, by Professor Vicki Been. http://www.nyu.edu/pages/elc/ej/
Inner City Press' Environmental Justice Reporter (based in South Bronx). http://www.innercitypress.org/ejreport.html
The Collaborative on Health and the Environment. Based in the Northwest. http://www.chenw.org/cgi-bin/searchevents.cgi
The Center for Environmental Justice. http://www.nationalcenter.org/CEJ.html
Pollution in People: A Study of Toxic Chemicals in Washingtonians. http://pollutioninpeople.org/
TURI. Toxics Use Reduction Institute. Useful information about regulated toxic chemicals. http://www.turi.org/
International District Housing Alliance. A non-profit organization committed to improving the quality of life for International District residents and Asian and Pacific Islanders of greater Seattle. http://www.apialliance.org/idha/
Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition. http://www.duwamishcleanup.org/

Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative. http://www.ejcc.org/
Toxipedia. Free toxicology encyclopedia and resource center http://toxipedia.org/
Indian Country Today. Indian Country Today has been a persuasive voice in American Indian journalism http://www.indiancountry.com/
Native American Rights Fund (NARF). The oldest and largest nonprofit law firm dedicated to asserting and defending the rights of Indian tribes, organizations and individuals nationwide. http://www.narf.org/


EJ IN WASHINGTON
RESOURCES: Media, field visits, local news sources, community based organizations, interviews, local government agencies, churches, tribes, and neighborhood associations.
KEY EJ QUESTIONS:

  1. Who reaps the benefits? Who shoulders the burdens?

  2. Who are the stakeholders?

  3. Is there environmental quality monitoring? Are there health disparities?

  4. What is the media coverage?

  5. Who are the decision-makers? How are decisions made?


EJ IN WASHINGTON:

  • Industrial Facility & Pollution

    • Georgetown Waste transfer station

    • Asarco Smelter

    • Agriculture, dairies, animal farms, & stockyards (Yakima valley)

    • South Seattle Boeing Field PCB contamination

    • Duwamish River Superfund Site (S. Seattle & Duwamish Tribe)




  • Nuclear industry (e.g., legacy of uranium mining)

    • Dawn & Midnite Uranium Mines Superfund Site (Spokane Tribe)

    • Hanford Nuclear Site (Yakama Tribe & the Columbia river)




  • Tribal Nations (sovereignty, usual and accustomed hunting & fishing, sacred sites)

    • Snoqualmie Falls (Snoqualmie Tribe sacred place)

    • Columbia River (Colville, Yakama, and other Tribes)

    • Duwamish River (Duwamish Tribe)




  • Fish Consumption

    • Spokane river fish advisories (impact and outreach for Slavic community and S.E. Asian communities, and Latino/Hispanic communities)

    • Columbia River (Yakama tribe)

    • Duwamish River (Duwamish tribe)




  • Goods movement & transportation corridors

    • Highways & transit planning (Columbia River Crossing, I-5)

    • Port of Seattle (S. Seattle & Georgetown)

    • Port of Tacoma




  • Redevelopment / Brownfields

    • Bellingham Bay (Lummi Tribe)

    • South Seattle industrial sites




  • Occupational health & safety

    • Industrial & agricultural laborers

    • Military

    • Port workers

    • Undocumented workers

    • Nail care salons (S. Seattle EPA Care Grant)

(July 2008)


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