Issues: Environmental Justice

In Brief Articles

You Can Beat City Hall - Community Action Tips
Guides

These community-action tips will get you started in fighting the introduction of polluters into your neighborhood.

Partnerships for Change
Fact Sheet

Over the years, NRDC has joined forces with community-based grassroots groups across the country to help protect the health and environment of local communities from harmful industrial development and toxic pollution.

The Environmental Justice Movement
History

Championed primarily by African-Americans, Latinos, Asians and Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, the environmental justice movement addresses a statistical fact: people who live, work and play in America's most polluted environments are most often people of color and the poor.

Rebuilding New Orleans
Overview

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a team of health and environmental specialists from NRDC has been working with the people of New Orleans to ensure their safe recovery from the disaster.

On the Ground in New Orleans: An NRDC Fact-finding Mission
Photo Album

A photo journal from NRDC experts gathering first-hand information about the health and environmental after-effects of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.