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• Environmental justice


  The fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. It is achieved when everyone enjoys the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards and equal access to the decision-making process to have a healthy environment in which to live, learn, and work
• Importance of environmental justice


  • Highlights the importance of community involvement
  • Promotes health equity
  • Acknowledges that everyone has a responsibility to protect the environment
  • Works towards sustainable solutions
  • Defines the need for distributive justice
• Examples of environmental justice


  • Access to clean air
  • Access to safe drinking water
  • Pollution hot spots
  • Toxic waste disposal
  • Climate change
  • Environmental health hazards
  • Unsafe working conditions
  • Access to outdoor recreation
  • Access to affordable housing
  • Equitable development
• Environmental injustice is experienced through


  • Heightened exposure to pollution and corresponding health risks
  • Limited access to adequate environmental services
  • Loss of land and resource rights
• Environmental injustice can cause asthma, cancer, obesity, hyperactivity, lead poisoning, reproductive problems
• Equality


  Assumption that everyone benefits from same supports
• Equity


  Everyone gets the supports they need
• Justice


  All 3 can see the game without support/accommodations because cause of inequity was addressed
• Liability


  An important part of taking legal action against environmental injustice
• Plaintiffs file lawsuits against liable parties