Environmental Justice
February 2, 2008
What is Environmental Justice?
ü The fear treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect of the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations and policies.
ü EPA has a goal- it will be achieved when everyone enjoys the same degree of protection from environmental health hazards and equal access to the decision making process to have a healthy environment.
Environmental Justice- Souce 1.
3 Fundamental environmental Justice Principles:
1. Avoid, minimize, mitigate disproportionately high and adverse human health and environmental effects including social/economic effects on minority populations and low income populations.
2. To ensure the full and fair participants by all potentially affected communities in the transition decision-making process.
3. To prevent the denial of, reduction in, or significant delay in the receipt of benefits by minority and low-income populations.
Environmental Justice- source 2
ENVIRONMENTAL BURDENS
ü An important, sensitive, and hard to measure subject. Advocates makes a strong case that poor communities and communities of color can bear more than their share of environmental burdens.
