Mobilizing Highly Impacted Communities Near Toxic Sites
In late 2017 Front and Centered was awarded a Public Participation Grant (PPG) by the Washington State Department of Ecology for our Mapping to Mobilizing project.
In late 2017 Front and Centered was awarded a Public Participation Grant (PPG) by the Washington State Department of Ecology for our Mapping to Mobilizing project.
In February, fifty experts from around the state convened for the Washington State Environmental Justice Mapping Symposium, a day-long working session aimed at identifying and illustrating the communities most impacted by pollution and climate change. Symposium participants represented a range of perspectives — from community-based organizations to academia to government agencies — and discussed methods for determining the illustrating the severity of health and economic impacts on communities all across the state.
Front and Centered advocates for targeting clean energy and carbon reduction investments to frontline communities hit first and worst by pollution and climate change.
Communities of color, people with lower incomes, and indigenous people are on the frontlines of climate and environmental change.
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