Environmental Justice

The National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) provides independent advice, consultation, and recommendations to the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on matters related to environmental justice.

The following NEJAC reports, containing advice and recommendations to the Agency, are the result of its most recent meetings:

• Future Mechanisms to Enhance Stakeholder Involvement and Engagement to Address Environmental Justice (PDF) -August 2006 (211KB, 26 pages)
  • EPA Response to Recommendations (PDF) (153KB, 2 pages)
  
  
• The 2005 Gulf Coast Hurricanes and Vulnerable Populations: Recommendations for Future Disaster Preparedness/Response (PDF) -August 2006 (219KB, 25 pages)
  • EPA Response to Recommendations (PDF) (438KB, 6 pages)
  
  
• Unintended Impacts of Redevelopment and Revitalization Efforts in Five Environmental Justice Communities (PDF) -August 2006 (284KB, 40 pages)
  • EPA Response to Recommendations (PDF) (234KB, 5 pages)
  
  
• Ensuring Risk Reduction in Communities with Multiple Stressors: Environmental Justice and Cumulative Risks/Impacts December 2004 (PDF) (2,601KB, 178 pages)

• Meaningful Involvement and Fair Treatment by Tribal Environmental Regulatory Programs October 2004 (PDF) (407KB, 68 pages)

• Environmental Justice and Federal Facilities: Recommendations for Improving Stakeholder Relations Between Federal Facilities and Environmental Justice Communities November 2004 (PDF) (1,434KB, 94 pages)

• Advancing Environmental Justice Through Pollution Prevention: A Report developed from the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council Meeting of December 9-13, 2002

• Fish Consumption and Environmental Justice: A Report on the Public Meeting Convened on December 3-6, 2001;

• NEJAC Report on Integration of Environmental Justice in Federal Programs: A Report on the Public Meeting Convened on December 11, 12, and 14, 2000;

• Environmental Justice and Community-Based Health Model Discussion: A Report on the Public Meeting Covened on May 23-26, 2000;

• Environmental Justice in the Permitting Process: A Report on the Public Meeting Convened by the NEJAC November 30-December 2, 1999.