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Environmental Justice

A Citizen’s Guide to Using Federal Environmental Laws to Secure Environmental Justice, ELI Project No. 981624, 2002  (English Version) (2.14 MB)  (Spanish Version) (1.03 MB) 

Addressing Community Concerns: How Environmental Justice Relates To Land Use Planning and Zoning, National Academy of Public Administration for the U.S. EPA, July 2003 (7.4 MB)

Addressing Environmental Justice in Public and Multi-Sector Decision-Making, Charles Lee, Office of Environmental Justice, United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), 2005 (365 KB)

Advancing Environmental Justice Through Pollution Prevention, National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, June 2003  (1.38 MB)

Analysis of the Environmental Justice Compliance of the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), P.S. Sriraj, Geoff Fruin, and Sue McNeil, Urban Transportation Center, Univ. of Illinois Chicago, 2003  (490 KB)

Citizen’s Guide to Using Federal Environmental Laws To Secure Environmental Justice, Environmental Law Institute, 2002  (3.64 MB)

Community Environmental Policing: Assessing New Strategies of

Public Participation in Environmental Regulation, Dara O’Rourke,
Gregg P. Macey, 2003 (621 KB)

Enhancing Environmental Justice In EPA Permitting Programs:

A Report Of Advice and Recommendations Of The National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC), April 2011  (338 KB)

Environment and Morality: Confronting Environmental Racism in the United States, Robert D. Bullard, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Paper Number 8, October 2004 (853 KB)

Environmental Justice: A Bibliography with Abstracts, Toxicology & Environmental Health Information Program, Specialized Information Services, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health,

June 1997 (106 KB)

Environmental Justice: Building a Unified Vision of Health and the Environment, Charles Lee, Office of Environmental Justice, United States Environmental Protection Agency, April 2002  (501 KB)

Environmental Justice: Human Health and Environmental Inequalities, Robert J. Brulle, David N. Pellow, August 2005  (159 KB)

Environmental Justice For All: A Fifty-State Survey Of Legislation, Policies, and Initiatives, Steven Bonorris, Jodene Isaacs, Kara Brown,

American Bar Association (ABA) and Hastings College of the Law,

January 2004 (292 KB)

Environmental Justice Maps @ Scorecard.org

Environmental Justice, Urban Revitalization, and Brownfields: The Search for Authentic Signs of Hope, National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, NEJAC Waste and Facility Siting Subcommittee

July 1996 (628 KB)

Illinois Environmental Briefing Book (2005–2006), Illinois Environ-mental Council Education Fund (IECEF), April 2005  (7.54 MB) 

Integrated Federal Interagency Environmental Justice Action Agenda, Office of Environmental Justice, United States Environmental Protection Agency, EPA/300-R-00-008, November 2000 (658 KB)

Judicial Handbook On Environmental Law, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2005  (2.05 MB)

Not Good at Partnering?: Community Fragmentation and Environ-mental Activism in Southeast Chicago, Kathleen Gillogly, Eve Pinsker, USEPA Region 5,  February 2001  (6.10 MB)

Not In My Backyard: Executive Order 12,898 and Title VI As Tools For Achieving Environmental Justice, United States Commission on Civil Rights, October 2003  (1.92 MB)

Opportunities For Advancing Environmental Justice: An Analysis Of

U.S. EPA Statutory Authorities, Environmental Law Institute (ELI), November 2001 (660 KB)

Race, Class, Gender, and American Environmentalism, Dorceta E.

Taylor, US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, PNW-GTR-534, April 2002 (328 KB) 

Race, Waste, and Class: New Perspectives on Environmental Justice, Michael K. Heiman, Environmental Studies, James Center, Dickinson College, Antipode 28(2): April 1996 (50 KB)

The EPA and Environmentalism In Chicago: Recommendations for a Community Based Approach, Elizabeth Babcock, August 1997 (50 KB)

The Meaning of Resident Empowerment: Why Just About Everybody Thinks It's A Good Idea and What It Has To Do With Resident Management, William Peterman, 1996 (105 KB)

The Principles of Environmental Justice (EJ), The First People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, October 1991 (12 KB)

Toward Environmental Justice: Research, Education, and Health Policy Needs, Executive Summary, Committee on Environmental Justice, Institute of Medicine, 1999 (327 KB)

Toxic Playground: Growing Up In Skid Row,  United Coalition East Prevention Project, November 2005 (842 KB)

Toxic Wastes and Race At Twenty 1987-2007: Grassroots Struggles

To Dismantle Environmental Racism In The United States, Robert D. Bullard, Paul Mohai, Robin Saha, Beverly Wright, 2007  (5.33 MB)

Toxic Waste And Race In The United States: A National Report On The Racial And Socio-Economic Characteristics And Communities With Hazardous Waste Sites,  Commission For Racial Justice, United Church of Christ, 1987 (3.78 MB)

Trading Human Health For Profit, Nicole L. Warren, April 2002 (83 KB)

Who Is Listening to Local Communities?: Connections Between Chicago Region Community-Based Organizations and Regional, State, and National Policy Initiatives. Nyden, Benefield, and Hellwig, Center for Urban Research and Learning, Loyola Univ., 2005 (218 KB)

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