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Civil Rights Act
shall ensure that all programs or activities receiving federal financial assistance that affect human health or the environment -
Environmental Protection Agency Created
independent executive agency of the united states federal government tasked with environmental protection matters -
Federal Recognition of Environmental Justice
recognizes the importance of the united nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples and the principles that are consistent with the mission and authorities of the agency. the epa incorporates environmental justice when the agency directly implements federal environmental programs. -
Hawkins v. Town of Shaw Court Case
a class-action lawsuit over equal distribution of municipal services and infrastructure which reached the united states court of appeals for the fifth circuit. -
Warren County Protest
small, predominately african-american community was designated to host a hazardous waste landfill. This landfill would accept pcb-contaminated soil that resulted from illegal dumping of toxic waste along roadways. -
Indigenous Environmental Network Forms
alliance of grassroots Indigenous peoples whose mission it is to protect the sacredness of mother earth from contamination and exploitation by strengthening, maintaining and respecting Indigenous teachings and natural laws. -
First National People of Color Summit
served as a defining document for the growing grassroots movement for environmental justice. -
First State Environmental Equity Law
involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws. -
Environmental Justice Executive Order
identify and address the disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of their actions on minority and low-income populations, to the greatest extent practicable and permitted by law. -
Hurricane Katrina
large category five atlantic hurricane that caused over 1,800 deaths and $125 billion in damage in august 2005, particularly in the city of new orleans and the surrounding areas. -
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
oil spill was an industrial disaster that began on April 20 2010, in the gulf of mexico on the bp-operated macondo prospect, considered the biggest oil spill recorded -
Bayou Bridge Pipeline Protests
protesters have climbed trees to try to prevent forest removal near the construction site for the bayou bridge pipeline. -
Atlantic Coast Pipeline Protests
twelve activists arrested protesting dangerous and polluting act -
Hurricane Florence
powerful and long-lived cape verde hurricane that caused catastrophic damage in the carolinas in september 2018, primarily as a result of freshwater flooding due to torrential rain. -
Cancer Alley
known for its pollution-emitting chemical plants, should be halted according to a large group of independent un human rights experts, who on tuesday branded it a form of “environmental racism”.