Sustainable & Equitable Transit

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 (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/

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/

https://www.denver7.com/news/environment/environmental-groups-lawsuit-argues-colorado-is-letting-air-polluters-pay-to-play