Michigan Green Muslims, a volunteer grassroots environmental justice group formed in 2024, intends to educate the Muslim community and the public about the Islamic environmental justice teachings, to apply these teachings in daily life and to contribute to coalitions and collaborations working toward a just, healthy, peaceful and sustainable future.
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Just Transition Alliance
San Diego, California
The Just Transition Alliance builds alignment at the intersection of environmental and economic justice and labor, so that frontline workers and fenceline communities can organize just transition pathways away from dangerous, extractive systems and towards local, healthy and regenerative economies.
https://nacla.org/panama-belem-grassroots-demands-real-just-transition/
https://ejagainstplastics.org/worker-community-solidarity-in-the-struggle-for-a-zero-waste-future/
Seven Directions of Service
Mebane, North Carolina
7 Directions of Service (7DS) is an Indigenous-led organization rooted in environmental justice and grassroots power, operating on the ancestral homelands of the Occaneechi-Saponi in rural North Carolina.
Our mission is to protect Sacred Places, advocate for the legal recognition of Rights of Nature, and establish a land, language, and cultural center grounded in traditional Yesah teachings. Through educational and cultural programming, community projects and civic engagement, 7DS is an essential force of coalition-building and cultural shift towards environmental justice and Indigenous visions of the future.
We are committed to serving as a powerful voice for the lands, waters, and the interconnected more-than-human world.
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (T.E.J.A.S)
Houston, Texas
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (t.e.j.a.s.) empowers communities to build sustainable, healthy environments through education on pollution impacts, environmental laws, and community action tools to promote public participation and enforcement.
https://www.houstoniamag.com/news-and-city-life/2025/04/texas-environmental-justice-tejas-founders
South Bronx Unite
Bronx, New York
South Bronx United advances environmental, health, and social justice in Mott Haven-Port Morris through community organizing, advocacy, and research, working toward a thriving South Bronx with clean air, affordable housing, quality healthcare, living-wage jobs, and community-led decisions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/nyregion/congestion-pricing-air.html
RISE for Environmental Justice
Kansas City, Kansas
Our mission is to bring attention to the community led solutions in resistance to chemical exposures, environmental toxins, environmental racism and ecological destruction- all of which negatively impact the health and well-being of fenceline communities.
https://www.kmuw.org/2025-03-31/city-of-wichita-cuts-community-greenhouse-gas-reduction-goals
PODER – Austin
Austin, Texas
PODER (People Organized in Defense of Earth and Her Resources) is a women-led people of color grassroots organization in East Austin working sincere 1991 to advance environmental, social, and economic justice through community education, advocacy and action.
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025/05/01/transformation-austin-texas-tech-red-state-liberal
https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2024/04/10/susana-almanza-austin-poder.html
People For Community Recovery
Chicago, Illinois
People for Community Recovery (PCR), founded in 1979 by Hazel Johnson, the mother of the environmental justice movement, works to enhance quality of life for pollution-impacted residents through education, advocacy, and programs addressing environment, health, housing, and economic equity.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/environment/2025/03/07/hazel-johnson-environmental-justice-chicago-trump-epa-cheryl-johnson-altgeld-gardens
https://grist.org/cities/chicago-law-would-change-where-polluting-companies-operate/
North Carolina Environmental Justice Network
Raleigh, North Carolina
North Carolina Environmental Justice Network (NCEJN) is a grassroots, people of color-led coalition of community organizations and their supporters who work with low income communities and people of color on issues of climate, environmental, racial, and social injustice.
https://www.wxii12.com/article/buc-ees-opposition-groups-present-environmental-impact-report/64896668
https://ncnewsline.com/2024/12/09/coalition-demands-excessive-heat-protection-for-laborers/
North Carolina Climate Justice Collective
Durham, North Carolina
NC Climate Justice Collective (NCCJC) works with frontline communities to build grassroots power and movement infrastructure for a just transition to a regenerative economy where all people and the planet can thrive.
https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article271593212.html
National Black Environmental Justice Network
New Orleans, Louisiana
The National Black Environmental Justice Network (NBEJN), founded in 1999 and relaunched in 2020, unites Black EJ leaders and organizations to address environmental and health disparities, engage youth, challenge discriminatory policies, and advance environmental, racial, and economic justice for Black communities worldwide.
New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance
Newark, New Jersey
The New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance is an alliance of New Jersey-based organizations and individuals committed to working together to create healthy, sustainable and just communities by eliminating environmental injustices in low income and communities of color. Together we support and work with communities through local, state, and national policy development, targeted campaigns and organizing, education, advocacy, training and technical assistance focused on critical environmental justice issues.
https://www.nj.com/essex/2025/02/construction-can-start-on-power-plant-in-one-of-njs-most-polluted-cities-regulators-say.html
Land Loss Prevention Project
Durham, North Carolina
The Land Loss Prevention Project (LLPP) is a non-profit public interest organization providing comprehensive legal services and technical support to North Carolina’s financially distressed and limited resource farmers and landowners seeking to preserve their farms, homes, land and rural livelihoods. The LLPP protects vulnerable landowners from land loss and environmental degradation through legal representation and outreach statewide and empowers farmers to access business resources including credit in a timely manner.
https://disasterphilanthropy.org/resources/hurricane-florence-land-loss-prevention-project/
Kingdom Living Temple Send
Florence, South Carolina
Kingdom Living Temple is a faith-based organization that addresses climate change, economic development and environmental justice issues. Its work takes place in communities in South Carolina, nationally and globally.
Jesus People Against Pollution
Columbia, Mississippi
Jesus People Against Pollution (JPAP), a faith-based environmental justice organization founded in 1992, advocates for Columbia, MS residents exposed to toxic chemicals, pursuing sustainable healthcare, better housing, environmental restoration, and just compensation.
Indigenous Environmental Network
Bemidji, Minnesota
The Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), established in 1990 by Indigenous communities across North America, advances environmental, climate, energy, and food justice through Indigenous-led action, advocating for systemic change, Just Transition, and Indigenous-based Green New Deal policies rooted in self-determination, treaty rights, and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
https://lptv.org/indigenous-environmental-network-celebrates-roots-shoots-seeds-in-bemidji/
Harambee House
Savannah, Georgia
The mission of The Harambee House/CFEJ is to provide relevant and timely training in the areas of environmental protection, ecological sustainability, and community education to ensure that all citizens live in and maintain healthy cities and neighborhoods.
https://www.nwf.org/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2021/Oct-Nov/Conservation/Air-Pollution
https://www.epa.gov/ports-initiative/savannah-community-port-collaboration-pilot-project
Environmental Justice Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform
Wilmington, DE
The Environmental Justice Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform advances a movement for safe chemicals and clean energy, addressing the disproportionate harm chemical and energy industries inflict on fence line communities of color, Indigenous, and low-income populations.
https://www.nrdc.org/bio/sara-imperiale/campaign-pushes-local-food-safe-products-dollar-general
Flint Rising
Flint, MI
Flint Rising works to provide accurate information and resources about the Flint Water Crisis. The organization is led by the residents of Flint, Michigan and partners with grassroots groups, volunteers, the labor movement and other allies to fight for justice.
https://earthjustice.org/press/2023/egle-epa-retreat-from-civil-rights-agreement-with-flint-groups
https://www.governing.com/infrastructure/why-is-there-still-lead-in-americas-water
Green Door Initiative, Inc.
Detroit, MI
The Green Door Initiative works to build environmental literacy and advance environmental justice for vulnerable Detroit residents, advocating for clean air, safe water, green jobs, and developing youth leadership in environmental advocacy.
https://www.axios.com/local/detroit/2024/03/05/workforce-development-green-door-initiative
Green Latinos
South Whittier, CA
GreenLatinos is an active community of Latino/a/x leaders, emboldened by the power and wisdom of our culture, united to demand equity and dismantle racism, resourced to win our environmental, conservation, and climate justice battles, and driven to secure our political, economic, cultural, and environmental liberation. Our vision is a healthy and equitable society where communities of color are liberated from disproportionate environmental burdens, free to breathe fresh air, drink pure water, access clean transportation, and enjoy majestic public lands, oceans, and waters.
https://citylimits.org/the-campaign-to-debunk-climate-lies-in-latino-communities/
Alaska Community Action on Toxics
Anchorage, AK
The Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) is a statewide environmental health and justice research and advocacy organization. ACAT believes everyone has a right to clean air and water and toxic-free foods. Driven by a core belief in environmental justice, ACAT empowers communities to eliminate exposure to toxic chemicals through collaborative research, shared science, education, organizing, and advocacy. ACAT works to eliminate the production and release of harmful chemicals by industry and military sources; ensure the public right-to-know; achieve policies based on the precautionary principle; and support the rights of Indigenous peoples.
Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
Hartford, CT
The mission of the Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice is to protect the health and welfare of urban centers by supporting efforts to reduce fossil power emissions in a responsible manner.
Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice is dedicated to improving the lives of children and families harmed by pollution and vulnerable to climate change in the Gulf Coast Region. Its work is focused on research, education, community and student engagement, policy change, and health and safety training for environmental careers.
Duwamish River Community Coalition
Renton, WA
Duwamish River Community Coalition monitors the cleanup of the Duwamish River in Seattle, Washington. DRCC also serves as a voice for the community in response to environmental, social and economic impacts of pollution.