The New York City Environmental Justice Alliance (NYC-EJA) is a network of community-based groups in low-income neighborhoods of color throughout NYC. Founded in 1991, NYC-EJA organizes its member groups to advocate for the empowerment of environmentally overburdened communities by coalescing around City & State-wide issues which threaten their ability to thrive. What distinguishes NYC-EJA is our ability to: a) Create, nurture & organize a collective voice to mobilize citywide support to resolve environmental justice issues. b) Highlight key environmental justice issues & policies that arise in multiple communities, or impact citywide conditions, requiring innovative & creative problem solving. c) Involve people of color & other stakeholders directly affected by environmental issues in leadership roles For 30+ years, NYC-EJA has been at the forefront of City & State campaigns to advance environmental & climate justice. Our recent campaign accomplishments have re-defined environmental/climate justice advocacy in NY – our leadership has included: * the Waterfront Justice Project, (NYC’s first citywide community resiliency campaign) * the Sandy Regional Assembly, * the historic 2014 People’s Climate March (the largest climate mobilization in history, with over 400,000 marchers), * NYC’s first “waste equity” law (reduced waste transfer station capacity in NYC's most overburdened communities), * Transform Don’t Trash NY (the largest proposal to overhaul NYC’s commercial waste system in decades), * Climate Works for All (won the 2019 NYC Climate Mobilization Act, the most ambitious climate action plan by any major U.S. city), * NY Renews (lead for the Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act, CLCPA, the most aggressive climate action law among U.S. states - inspired President Biden's Justice40 Initiative), * congestion pricing for NYC’s central business district (the first by any North American city); and * the NYC Climate Justice Agenda.
New York City Environmental Justice Alliance的外部链接
462 36th St
Suite #3F
US，New York，Brooklyn，11232
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Join us next Wednesday for a webinar introducing our 2024 - 25 Climate Justice Agenda! Come learn about our various campaigns and how we plan to build grassroots power for just and clean communities in the challenging times ahead. Register here: https://lnkd.in/ey7kur6k
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Join us next Wednesday for a webinar introducing our 2024 - 25 Climate Justice Agenda! Come learn about our various campaigns and how we plan to build grassroots power for just and clean communities in the challenging times ahead. Register here: https://lnkd.in/ey7kur6k
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Join us next Wednesday for a webinar introducing our 2024 - 25 Climate Justice Agenda! Come learn about our various campaigns and how we plan to build grassroots power for just and clean communities in the challenging times ahead. Register here: https://lnkd.in/ey7kur6k
Join us next Wednesday for a webinar introducing our 2024 - 25 Climate Justice Agenda! Come learn about our various campaigns and how we plan to build grassroots power for just and clean communities in the challenging times ahead. Register here: https://lnkd.in/ey7kur6k
We are excited to announce the release of the PEAK Coalition’s latest report, "Demanding a Better Grid: How Demand Management Can Accelerate the Phase-Out of New York City’s Peaker Power Plants." NYC-EJA is proud to be part of the PEAK Coalition, which came together to end the long-standing pollution burden from peaker plants on the city’s most climate-vulnerable people. 5 years after the coalition’s inception, a lot of progress has been made, but too many harmful peakers remain. Environmental justice communities cannot be sacrificed any longer. Peaker plants are harming people’s health, contributing to global warming, and costing New Yorker’s millions of dollars in utility bills. There are much better ways to ensure a reliable grid. Read our report to learn more about one of them: Demand Management. https://lnkd.in/eaEu-Qmv
We are excited to announce the release of NYC-EJA’s 2024 NYC Climate Justice Agenda! This newest agenda arrives at a critical juncture. While we have seen some progress in implementing New York State’s landmark Climate Act and other climate justice initiatives since 2019, we have also seen increased resistance from fossil fuel interests and state actors seeking to undermine climate mandates and co-opt climate justice rhetoric. As we approach the 10th anniversary of the historic People’s Climate March (as well as Climate Week), New York faces a critical moment. Our State and City have a little more than five years to meet their 40% emission reduction mandates set out by the Climate Act and Climate Mobilization Act, respectively. With mayoral and gubernatorial elections on the horizon, our 2024 NYC Climate Justice Agenda provides strategic recommendations to address environmental burdens for frontline communities and tackle climate change with a focus on equity and health. Check out the report here: https://lnkd.in/ePx5hxQ4
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Rikers Island, long known for its injustices and abuses, is mandated to close by 2027, after which it will become a hub for clean energy and organics processing. ?But the NYC Department of Correction is now pushing to keep it open longer and increase pollution from its fossil-fuel power plant. The plan would allow more dangerous pollutants like NOx and PM10 into our air—risking public health and accelerating climate change. This is inconsistent with the Renewable Rikers laws, and violates our state’s landmark climate legislation, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.? What happens at Rikers affects all of us—especially in the fight for environmental justice for all. Join us in demanding that the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation enforce the law and prioritize a sustainable future. Rikers must close on time, and the island must be repurposed for clean energy, not more pollution! ?? Submit your comment by August 26 Join us in submitting a comment to NYS Department of Environmental Conservation now: https://lnkd.in/euMTjZ2n ?? #RenewableRikers #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalJustice #CleanEnergy #ClimateAction #NYC? ?
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Today is the second day of summer, third day of NYC's first heat wave of the year, and yet another day that NYC is under an Air Quality Health Advisory -- this excellent report by New York City Environmental Justice Alliance about the dangers of unhealthy air pollution and extreme heat in NYC's low-income communities of color sure does seem timely (even if it was released one whole week ago)!
Our new CHAMP-EJ report releases today – soon after Governor Kathy Hochul’s shocking decision to indefinitely postpone congestion pricing – revealing that air quality measurements at the hyperlocal level in environmental justice neighborhoods of the South Bronx, and Brooklyn showed levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution up to 18x greater and 49x greater (for mobile and fixed measurements, respectively) than the nearest government-run monitors that report hourly values. CHAMP-EJ highlights air pollution and heat research findings including identifying policy recommendations - such as congestion pricing - for the City and State to reduce air quality and heat disparities in low income communities of color. CHAMP-EJ came together with support from the @nyattourney New York State Attorney General’s Office and in collaboration with community-based organizations El Puente, GOLES, The POINT CDC, UPROSE, We Stay/Nos Quedamos, and other research partners. Full report here >> https://lnkd.in/ec3b9EXp
Our new CHAMP-EJ report releases today – soon after Governor Kathy Hochul’s shocking decision to indefinitely postpone congestion pricing – revealing that air quality measurements at the hyperlocal level in environmental justice neighborhoods of the South Bronx, and Brooklyn showed levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution up to 18x greater and 49x greater (for mobile and fixed measurements, respectively) than the nearest government-run monitors that report hourly values. CHAMP-EJ highlights air pollution and heat research findings including identifying policy recommendations - such as congestion pricing - for the City and State to reduce air quality and heat disparities in low income communities of color. CHAMP-EJ came together with support from the @nyattourney New York State Attorney General’s Office and in collaboration with community-based organizations El Puente, GOLES, The POINT CDC, UPROSE, We Stay/Nos Quedamos, and other research partners. Full report here >> https://lnkd.in/ec3b9EXp
"It is now a constitutional right in New York to have clean air—not slightly cleaner air." Read?Eddie Bautista's full op-ed in NY Amsterdam News on why the "Clean Fuel Standard” is a False Solution! https://lnkd.in/eKjJErvc