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Michigan Green Muslims

Mackinaw, Michigan

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.

Los Jardines

Albuquerque,, New Mexico

The purpose of Los Jardines InstituteTM (The Gardens Institute) is to build and support healthy and sustainable communities and workplaces. It does this by creating opportunities that promote multigenerational learning, sharing and movement building.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/small-scale-farm-brings-food-justice-to-strengthen-communities-across-new-mexicos-food-deserts/

https://www.nrdc.org/court-battles/national-technology-engineering-solutions-sandia-llc-et-v-albuquerque-benalillo

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

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

 

 

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/environmental-justice-means-racial-justice-say-activists

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

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