Resources
Discover our collection of tools, reports, and guides designed to support environmental justice initiatives
Our resources empower communities with the knowledge and strategies needed to advocate for equitable policies and sustainable practices. Explore now to enhance your efforts in achieving environmental justice.
Data Centers & Environmental Justice Issue Brief
Data centers are facilities that store digital infrastructure such as server systems, networking equipment, and power generators. Rapid expansion of these facilities have caused concerns surrounding their environmental, economic, and public health impacts. In response, multiple states and local municipalities are enacting regulations on their development and usage. Legislators can enact regulations that focus on these concerns, ensuring that communities are protected and receive benefits from having these centers in their backyards. Read more in our EJLF issue brief.
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Dismantling Injustice
This suite of M.O.D.E.L. bills offers a comprehensive set of legislation tools specifically designed to address the issue of cumulative impacts at the local and state levels. These legislations are readily adaptable and adaptable by advocates and lawmakers seeking to tackle the complex challenges posed by multiple sources of pollution and environmental stressors in overburdened communities. This site includes model bills accompanied by fact sheets, tools, case studies, and memos available for download. By implementing all or part of this legislative package, communities can take significant steps toward mitigating the health, economic, and well-being risks associated with cumulative exposure to pollution. Our M.O.D.E.L. bills can serve as a practical and effective solution that empowers decision-makers.
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Environmental Justice Principles
WE, THE PEOPLE OF COLOR, gathered together at this multinational People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, to begin to build a national and international movement of all peoples of color to fight the destruction and taking of our lands and communities, do hereby re-establish our spiritual interdependence to the sacredness of our Mother Earth; to respect and celebrate each of our cultures, languages and beliefs about the natural world and our roles in healing ourselves; to ensure environmental justice; to promote economic alternatives which would contribute to the development of environmentally safe livelihoods; and, to secure our political, economic and cultural liberation that has been denied for over 500 years of colonization and oppression, resulting in the poisoning of our communities and land and the genocide of our peoples, do affirm and adopt these Principles of Environmental Justice.
Green Jobs Report
WE ACT for Environmental Justice and the Environmental Justice Leadership Forum released the Green Jobs Report: Creating a Green Workforce, Community-Based Solutions for a Diverse Green Jobs Sector in 2020. This groundbreaking report outlines imperatives for bringing underrepresented groups into climate change work and the clean energy economy, and offers policy and best practice prescriptives for closing diversity gaps in the renewable energy industry.
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