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Environmental Justice Achievement Awards
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Overview
The Environmental Justice Achievement Awards recognize organizations for their success in addressing environmental justice issues or by adopting the goals of environmental justice to positively impact their community.
The goals of the Environmental Justice Awards Program include, but are not limited to, the following:
- promote positive behavior on environmental justice issues by all stakeholder groups,
- document models of success for others to emulate,
- encourage achievement of environmental results in communities having environmental justice issues,
- encourage collaborative problem solving by all stakeholder organizations to address significant environmental justice concerns.
To be considered for the award, organizations are evaluated based on the following criteria:
- innovation
- community responsibility
- community, equity, and public involvement
- partnerships and collaboration
- environmental justice integration
- demonstrated results/effectiveness/sustainability
Recent Awards
On October 21, 2008, EPA announced 12 winners of its first annual Environmental Justice Achievement Awards. The awards were given to organizations in the following categories:
- Academic institutions
- Duke University, Children’s Environmental Health Initiative (PDF) (135KB, 1 page)
- Dillard University, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (PDF) (125KB, 1 page)
- Medical University of South Carolina (PDF) (122KB, 1 page)
- Community based organizations
- West End Revitalization Association (PDF) (146KB, 1 page)
- Center for Environmental and Economic Justice (PDF) (127KB, 1 page)
- Citizens for Environmental Justice (PDF) (138KB, 1 page)
- Safer Pest Control Project (PDF) (127KB, 1 page)
- Non-governmental and environmental organizations
- Communities for a Better Environment (PDF) (123KB, 1 page)
- State and local government organizations
- South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (PDF) (129KB, 1 page)
- New Mexico Environment Department (PDF) (120KB, 1 page)
- Negocio Verde Environmental Justice Task Force (PDF) (124KB, 1 page)
- Tribal government and indigenous organizations
- Anahola Homesteaders Council (PDF) (140KB, 1 page)