Environmental Justice News
and Events
- Upcoming Meetings and Deadlines
- Recent Announcements, Press Releases, and Speeches
- Recent Meetings and Deadlines
- Recent Reports and Documents
Meetings and Activities
- January 18-20, 2006 – Waste Management National
Meeting
For more information, visit http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/meeting/
- June 27-30, 2006 - U.S. EPA Community Involvement Conference
For more information, visit http://www.epancic.org/
EJ-related Announcements, Press Releases, and Speeches
- November 4, 2005 - Administrator Johnson Reaffirms Commitment
to Environmental Justice.
Also available on http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/policies/ej/admin-ej-commit-letter-110305.pdf
- August 21, 2001 - Administrator Whitman Reaffirms Commitment
to Environmental Justice
Press Release
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August 21, 2001
- April 27, 2001 - Deadline for Public comments on PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT
POLICY
Press Release
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January 11, 2001
For more information, exit this Web page to the EPA's Draft Public Involvement Policy.
- EPA PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT POLICY PROPOSED
Press Release
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January 11, 2001
For more information, exit this Web page to the EPA's Draft Public Involvement Policy page.
- Title VI Case Studies Press Advisory
[ HTML (21K) | PDF (1 p, 6K, About PDF)]
June 11, 1999
For more information on Title VI Case Studies, click here.
For more information on Brownfields and Title VI, click here.
- Administrator Carol Browner's Speech at Brownfields
'98
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November 16, 1998
- Administrator Browner's Remarks at the Environmental Justice Roundtable
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July 17, 1998
- Administrator Browner's letter to the U.S. Conference of Mayors
regarding Brownfields and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
[ HTML (8K) | PDF (3 pp, 29K, About PDF)]
June 18, 1998
For more information on Brownfields and Title VI, click here.
- Environmental Monitoring for Public Access and Community Tracking
(EMPACT) Grants Competition Announced. The original March 2, 1998
deadline for Letters of Intent was extended. Full applications were
due May 15, 1998.
- Grant Competition Announcement
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To link to the EMPACT Homepage, click here.
- Grant Competition Announcement
NEJAC Information
- NEJAC Reports.
Environmental Justice and Federal Facilities: Recommendations for Improving Stakeholder Relations between Federal Facilities and Environmental Justice Communities (October 2004) (PDF)
- The NEJAC Waste Transfer Station Working Group, February 1999
Reports and Documents
- 1997-1998 Waste Programs
Environmental Justice
Accomplishments Report
- Innovations in OSWER: Making Safer, More Livable Communities The OSWER Innovations Report provides an integrated picture of how the waste management programs have evolved to make communities more livable.
- Cumulative Risk Assessment Guidance-Phase I Planning and Scoping
Now Available
- Brownfields Title VI Case Studies