Upcoming EJ Webinars - registration open!
The Midwest Environmental Justice Network is co-sponsoring these upcoming webinars with the Equitable and Just National Climate Platform.
Environmental Justice in Federal Climate Policy Making
Tuesday, September 22nd 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm ET
Join Congressional Staff members and national Environmental Justice leaders for a webinar on how congress can ensure that environmental justice communities are part of the process as federal climate policy is developed.
Communities of color and low-income communities - communities overburdened with pollution are often the hardest hit by climate change. Yet climate change policy making rarely acknowledges and repairs the legacy of environmental harms on environmental justice communities. Join us as we explore, why racial and environmental justice needs to be at the core of federal climate policy making and how federal climate policy making needs to evolve to ensure that frontline communities are at the decision-making table.
Speakers: Fatima Maria Ahmed (Senior Counsel at House Select Committee on Climate Crisis); Chris Espinosa (Director of Public Engagement, House Select Commitee on Natural Resources); Michele Roberts (National Co Coordinator of Environmental Justice Health Alliance); Dr Cecilia Martinez (Center for Earth Energy & Democracy); Ike Irby (Policy Advisor to US Senator Kamala D Harris)
Healthy Communities: Cumulative Impacts and Environmental Justice
Thursday, October 8th 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm ET
Join New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance and Midwest environmental justice advocates as we discuss legislative strategies to address cumulative impacts in environmental justice communities.
Cumulative impacts is a term that describes the lived reality of many communities of color and low-income communities where socio-economic, environmental and health factors combine to create deleterious effects on the most vulnerable populations. Join us as we explore how effective legislative strategies can limit and alleviate these burdens.
Speakers: Dr Nicky Sheats (Center for the Urban Environment of the John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy at Thomas Edison State University); Dr. Ana Baptista (The New School); Dr Cecilia Martinez (Center for Earth Energy & Democracy); Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition - invited
Participants will need to register for each session to receive the Zoom link. Please email Ansha Zaman, azaman@ceed.org or Say Yang, syang@ceed.org if you have any questions.