NJDEP OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

2020s Winter Conference keynote speaker, Riche S. Outlaw, inspired attendees with her story and a call to action.  To learn more about Environmental Justice in New Jersey, visit NJDEP's Office of Environmental Justice website: https://www.nj.gov/dep/ej/

EPA: Timeline of environmental justice in the US

This timeline presents EPA's involvement in the Environmental Justice Movement and the major events leading up to it. This is not meant to be an all inclusive history of the movement in general.

Environmental Justice:  Moving Equity from Margins to Mainstream

Environmental justice is the frontier of the environmental movement in the US and around the world. The field, scholarship, and advocacy instill the principle that biodiversity, social diversity, ecology, and health are interconnected. The nitty-gritty is democratic systems change—no less than sustainable realignment of the economy and the environment, health for all, and shared prosperity.

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resources FOR white people & parents to deepen their knowledge of anti-racism work

This document is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Feel free to circulate this document on social media and with your friends, family, and colleagues.

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