Environmental Justice
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Environmental justice is the fair treatment of all people with respect to the development, adoption, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. Environmental justice is the right to a safe, healthy, productive, and sustainable environment, where "environment" is considered in its totality to include the ecological, physical, social, political, aesthetic, and economic environment. Environmental justice addresses the disproportionate environmental risks borne by low-income communities and communities of color resulting from poor housing stock, poor nutrition, lack of access to health care, unemployment, underemployment, and employment in the most hazardous jobs.
March 10, 2010 Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) has helped numerous communities build public health partnerships and design plans to make their community health system work better. This free webinar will explore how CBSCs can make the MAPP process more effective by ensuring alignment of partners’ efforts, clarifying partner roles, and increasing accountability for measurable results. Public health leaders from two MAPP communities will share their early experiences in using CBSC tools, such as strategy maps, to build on MAPP and their expectations for improvements in their public health systems and outcomes. The webinar will also present ways to integrate CBSC with MAPP, wherever you may be in the MAPP process, and economical options for getting started. For more information, including registration, please click on the "more" link below. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released a request for applications (RFA) for eligible entities interested in participating in their Environmental Justice Small Grants Program (ESJG). The EJSG program supports and empowers communities working on solutions to local environmental and public health issues. This year, the program is emphasizing the need to address the disproportionate impacts of climate change in communities with environmental justice concerns. This focus on climate change is intended to create and enhance efforts to protect populations that would be disproportionately affected by the effects of climate change. To access the guidance document, visit http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/publications/ej/grants /rfa-small-grant-2010.pdf. For more general information about the EJSG Program, visit http://www.epa.gov/compliance/environmentaljustice/grants/ej-smgrants.html. For questions, please contact Sheila Lewis at lewis.sheila@epa.gov. More » 
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) and CDC's National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) have launched a National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures and are working with government, non-governmental agencies, business, industry, and members of the public to create an action agenda. The agenda will outline how the United States can meet public health goals and achieve the NCEH/ATSDR vision that they will use and manage chemicals in ways that are safe and healthy for all people. The goals of the National Conversation will be accomplished by creating a well-informed public and healthcare provider network, involving the public in government decisions, and encouraging partnerships among key groups and agencies. More » |
