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Join the Efforts to Pass a Statewide Environmental Justice Policy

For decades, minority, underserved and rural communities have been living in close proximity to industrial zone, power plants, incinerators, toxic waste, construction and demolition, and garbage landfills. Family farmers are faced with corporate farmers/ranchers dumping waste or chemicals near their farms. Workers are on the frontlines of all of these exposures. Children become sick; adults face cancers and diseases and because of their lack of money or political clout are denied justice. Establishing an Environmental Justice Policy will bring justice to all.

Repeated studies during the 1980s and 1990s found that African American and poor populations were far more likely than whites to live near hazardous waste disposal sites, polluting power plants or industrial parks. The disparities were blamed on a lack of political clout by minorities to influence land use decisions in their neighborhood. 

Little has changed. (Read More…)

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The Statewide Environmental Justice Community Forum will be taking place November 30 - December 1

Join us for a statewide forum to create an Ohio Environmental Justice Policy, and develop strategies to make it law!

Together we will take back the power to make our communities safe and healthy!

Registration deadline November 23!

Click here to read more!
Click here to register now!

.:OHEJ Materials List for Meetings with Legislators

.:EJ document summary, with EQ document Appendix

.:“Ohioans’ Message to Legislators”

.:Before, During and After Checklist

.:Survey for Visit

.:Talking points

.:Federal Definition of Environmental Justice

.:List of websites that give info about pollution and toxics by zip code

.:OHEJ sign-on letter

More Ohio EJ Forums Planned, Plus Online Participation!

Thanks to the success of our Ohio EJ forums in March, we will be holding more throughout 2007. Click here to see whether the Ohio EJ Forums will be coming to a town near you!

Can't make it to a forum? Offer your ideas online!

Click here to read about past forums.

Sign a Postcard in Support of Environmental Justice!

Sign an e-postcard to Governor Strickland supporting an Ohio Environmental Justice Policy that will protect and give voice to working class, low-income and communities of color unfairly burdened with pollution.

Click here to take action!

 
 

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