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ATTLEBORO — For Kalila Barnett, the keynote speaker at Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. celebration in Attleboro, Boston has pretty much always been home.
In this post, we’ll highlight some groundbreaking pieces unique to Washington’s law: environmental justice provisions that prioritize air pollution reductions in overburdened communities, ongoing oversight by an Environmental Justice Council, and significant investments in communities most impacted by poor air quality, economic barriers, and climate impacts.
- The new legislation strengthens and diversifies the state’s EJ task force, now termed the “EJ Council.” - An EJ mapping tool will be created to provide geospatial...
April 26 2021 Akashdeep Singh is policy and advocacy manager for OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon in Portland, an advocacy and civil leadership organization. It is undeniable that we are facing numerous environmental crises. They are becoming frequent, severe and unpredictable. We need to reimagine our environmental systems in order to ensure that Oregonians have a future in which they cannot just live but also thrive. To achieve a more just future for the environment, we have to address the gaps of engagement between marginalized communities and our decision-making processes. People ...