Environmental Justice is the concept that every person is entitled to equal environmental protection under the law: ECO-EQUITY—which includes the right to be free from ecological destruction and the assurance that environmental burdens are fairly distributed, as well as providing equal access to environmental goods. Environmental Justice refers to the need to prevent the disproportionate impacts of pollution that are all too often borne by communities of color and residents of economically disadvantaged areas. For example, power plants and industrial facilities are frequently sited in poor communities, or traffic is routed through them. Clearwater partners with grassroots community leaders along the Hudson corridor to identify environmental inequities and empowers underserved communities to take effective action.
ADVANCING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: Peekskill Environmental Justice Inventory
