"Governor Lamont's Executive Order establishing the Governor's Council on Climate Change (the GC3) required that the G3 analyze both climate mitigation progress and climate change adaptation through an equity lens. The Equity & Environmental Justice Working Group (EEJ) was charged with both developing a plan and guidelines for engaging diverse stakeholders into the process, including particularly people from the communities most vulnerable to climate change, and working with other groups within the GC3 [Governor's Council on Climate Change] process to evaluate recommended strategies through an equity lens...This report includes (I) a discussion of the concept of equity, (II) recommendations for public participation and remote public engagement, (III) the report and recommendations from the Mapping Tool Subcommittee, and (IV) high level recommendations from the Mitigation and EEJ and Adaptation Subcommittees, with additional feedback attached as appendices"--Introduction.

"Governor Lamont's Executive Order establishing the Governor's Council on Climate Change (the GC3) required that the GC3 analyze both climate mitigation progress and climate change adaptation through an equity lens. The Equity and Environmental Justice Working Group (EEJ) was charged with developing a plan and guidelines for engaging diverse stakeholders in the process and working with other working groups to evaluate recommended strategies through an equity lens"--Executive summary.

To be poor, working-class, or a person of color in the United States often means bearing a disproportionate share of the country’s environmental problems. Starting with the premise that all Americans have a basic right to live in a healthy environment, Dumping in Dixie chronicles the efforts of five African American communities, empowered by the civil rights movement, to link environmentalism with issues of social justice. In the third edition, Bullard speaks to us from the front lines of the environmental justice movement about new developments in environmental racism, different organizing strategies, and success stories in the struggle for environmental equity.

This book discusses the poor and people of color and their struggle to take control of one of the most basic aspects of their lives: the quality of their environment. It exposes the fact of environmental inequity and its consequences in face of general neglect by policymakers and social scientists.

As global climate change proliferates, so too do the health risks associated with the changing world around us. Called for in the President’s Climate Action Plan and put together by experts from eight different Federal agencies, The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health: A Scientific Assessment is a comprehensive report on these evolving health risks, including: Temperature-related death and illness Air quality deterioration Impacts of extreme events on human health Vector-borne diseases Climate impacts on water-related Illness Food safety, nutrition, and distribution Mental health and well-being This report summarizes scientific data in a concise and accessible fashion for the general public, providing executive summaries, key takeaways, and full-color diagrams and charts. Learn what health risks face you and your family as a result of global climate change and start preparing now with The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health.

Environmental risks and harms affect certain geographic areas and populations more than others. The environmental justice movement is aimed at having the public and private sectors address this disproportionate burden of risk and exposure to pollution in minority and/or low-income communities, and for those communities to be engaged in the decision-making processes. Environmental Justice provides an overview of this defining problem and explores the growth of the environmental justice movement. It analyzes the complex mixture of environmental laws and civil rights legal theories adopted in environmental justice litigation. Teachers will have online access to the more than 100 page Teachers Manual.