All Entries Tagged With: "Environmental Justice"
LA Health and Climate Symposium: Advancing Healthy and Resilient Communities In A Changing Environment
Climate change has the potential to cause widespread injuries and death related to natural disasters, displacement, heat-related illnesses, malnutrition, and air and water pollution. PSR-LA co-organized a symposium on April 30th, 2010 titled, Los Angeles Health and Climate: Advancing healthy and resilient communities in a changing environment.
PSR-LA Featured in Two Reports on Reproductive and Environmental Justice
Using the twin lenses of environmental justice and reproductive justice, PSR-LA is a featured group that is finding new ways to connect, frame, communicate, and organize around the issues that matter most to communities. This approach is creating new alliances, political opportunities, and concrete wins.
PSR-LA Working With the Coalition for Environmental Health and Justice
The Coalition for Environmental Health and Justice (CEHAJ) has been engaged in the community stakeholder proceedings of the I-710 Long Beach Freeway Corridor (local and state officials propose to expand the freeway) since 2001.
PSR-LA’s Local Role in Promoting a Green Economy, Green Jobs
Over the past year, we have continued to advocate for policies aimed at creating a new green economy in Los Angeles and California. One example is our work with the Los Angeles Apollo Alliance, where we are integrating PSR-LA’s mission and members’ voices in the Alliance’s campaign to connect residents to healthy, sustainable green jobs. [...]
Members Advocating For The Ports Investment Bill
PSR-LA and our partners are currently working to enact Senate Bill 974 (Lowenthal), which would raise approximately $400 million a year through port cargo container fees, with revenues evenly split between air quality improvements and congestion relief projects. In June 2008, PSR-LA members sent over 120 letters to Speaker Karen Bass urging her to support [...]
Op Ed | California’s New Chemical Laws: They Fail to Protect Us
This op-ed was published in Environmental Health News By Kathy Attar and Martha Dina Argüello Every month we read about a toxic chemical in another product that we use in our homes. Toys, shower curtains, cosmetics, and food packaging are all recent examples. Parents and families have been forced to become amateur chemists deciphering the [...]
Help Us Push This Bus!
PSR-LA Coordinates the West Coast Leg of the Environmental Justice for All Tour The 1961 Civil Rights Freedom Ride inspired the 2006 Environmental Justice for All Tour which called for changes in public policies and practices that expose people to toxic pollution and damage our environment. During the last week in September, three caravans carried [...]
Cal/EPA Adopts Tougher Environmental Justice Guidelines
After sixteen months of critical public comment forums throughout the state, the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA) Advisory Committee on Environmental Justice voted to adopt their draft “Recommendations to the Interagency Working Group.” In an impassioned September 29-30 public hearing in Oakland, California, hundreds of community activists, industrialists, and government agencies testified in support of [...]