Decarbonization

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/

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

https://newrepublic.com/article/162942/north-carolinas-democratic-governor-ignoring-black-native-communities

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

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-eviscerates-bedrock-public-health-environmental-law-1235280240/