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CEEP Environmental Justice Activities

ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO THE U.S. INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
U.S. Executive Order 12898, "Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations," established an Interagency Working Group (IWG) on environmental justice chaired by the EPA Administrator and comprised of the heads of eleven departments/agencies and several White House offices. These include the EPA, the Departments of Justice, Defense, Energy, Labor, Interior, Transportation, Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, and Health and Human Services, the Council on Environmental Quality, the Office of Management and Budget, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Domestic Policy Council, and the Council of Economic Advisors An advisory committee to the IWG assists its efforts to change federal policies and practices that fail to respond to problems of environmental injustice. Serving on the advisory committee, CEEP participates in this ongoing evaluation of national policy and institutional performance.

URBAN HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING PROJECT (UHELP)
The Urban Health and Environment Learning Project is a collaborative designed to empower communities in Wilmington, Delaware who bear disproportionate environmental burdens and associated health risks. UHELP’s principals are: the Henrietta Johnson Medical Center, Peoples Settlement Association – the oldest African-American community organization in Delaware, and CEEP. An example of our efforts on behalf of UHELP is a GIS mapping of brownfields communities in Wilmington that includes socio-economic, racial and health indicators. This work has resulted in a Community Environmental Profile that documents in detail patterns of environmental injustice in the region and calls for a zero brownfields planning strategy to permanently eliminate these patterns.

THE CLIMATE JUSTICE FORUM
Indicative of its involvement in the global debate on environmental justice, CEEP participated in the NGO-organized Climate Justice Forum, a parallel event to the UN-sponsored Eighth Conference of the Parties negotiating implementation of the Framework Convention on Climate Change (held in New Delhi, India). Members presented CEEP’s position paper, Ecological Justice in the Greenhouse, and organized a side event with the Center for Science and Environment to challenge the neglect of island vulnerability concerns in climate change negotiations, and to critique common assumptions about the supposedly benign character of ‘green’ technology transfer embodied in national and international climate change policies.

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