Environmental and climate justice region i 2013 final
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Environmental and Climate Justice Region I
The Path to Transformation for Our Communities
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OVERVIEW
What We’re Up Against
What Are Our Assets
How Do We Eliminate Threats and Optimize Our Strengths
Re-envisioning Community
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Our Current Course
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Waste and Communities
Where does American’s waste really go?
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Waste
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Waste Being Dumped in Our Communities
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Landfills in Region IAlaska: 3Arizona: 20California: 112Hawaii: 8Idaho: 6Nevada: 4Oregon: 11Utah:11Washington:14
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Landfills
Kettleman City and Buttonwillow are two of three low-income, Latino communities where California’s
toxic waste dumps are located. Both have experienced unexplained birth defect clusters, high
cancer rates and other health effects
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Incinerators
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Incinerators
Stericycle, Inc. operates Utah’s only commercial medical waste incinerator in Salt Lake City Utah. •Last commercial medical waste incinerator in the western region as Stericycle has replaced incineration in both California and Arizona with safer, non-incineration treatment technologies. •Stericycle burns waste from all over Utah and California, Arizona, Colorado and Texas at the facility in North Salt Lake City.
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Energy Production
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Industry and our Children
http://content.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/smokestack/index
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Deepwater Horizon Incident
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Richmond Oil Refinery—A History of Environmental Injustice
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Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking)
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Effects of Fracking
Brainbridge, Ohio: home explosion and contaminated drinking waterGranger Township, Ohio: explosive levels of natural gas in community’s
drinking water (federal level of explosivity is 1% and inside one of the homes tested was an alarming 20%)
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Fracking Accidents
Appomattox, VirginiaNatural gas pipeline explosion
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Halliburton Loophole
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Nuclear Reactors in the US
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Nuclear Waste Shipped From California to Utah
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Failing Coal Plants in Region I
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ArizonaCity Plant
Name3-mile
Average Income
State Income
Percentage
3-mile P.O.C.
Population
Grade
Tucson H.Wilson Sundt
$10,258 50.6% 74.7% F
Joseph City
Cholla $13,096 64.6% 27.3% D
Saint Johns
Coronado $12,470 61.5% 33.4% D
Page Navajo $18,294 90.2% 38.4% D+
Springerville
Springerville $13,255 65.4% 31.0% D+
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H Wilson Sundt Generating Station
Tucson, AZ
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California
City Plant Name 3-mile Average Income
State Income
Percentage
3-Mile P.O.C.
Population
Grade
Trona ACE Cogeneratio
n
$16,347 72.0% 24.1% D+
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ACE CongenerationTrona, California
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Hawaii
City Plant Name
3-mile Average Income
State Income
Percentage
3-Mile P.O.C.
Population
Grade
Kapolei AES Hawaii
$20,931 97.2% 87.0% F
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Kahe Power PlantLeeward, Oahu
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Nevada
City Plant Name
3-mile Average Income
State Income
Percentage
3-Mile P.O.C.
Population
Grade
Moapa Reid Gardner
$14,392 65.5% 52.8% D-
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Reid-Gardner Power PlantMoapa, Nevada
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Oregon
City Plant Name
3-mile Average Income
State Income
Percentage
3-Mile P.O.C.
Population
Grade
Boardman Boardman $13,982 66.8% 48.6% D-
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Boardman Coal PlantBoardman, Oregon
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Effects of Polluting Waste and Energy Facilities
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Effects of Pollution
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Climate Change
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Climate Change
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We need to take control!We need to take control!We need to take control! Of this climate!<Repeat>
It’s getting hot! Yeah it’s heating up!!
The climate’s changing! How it’s affecting us!!
You mean the floods storms, droughts, and fires.
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And heat related deaths in the US is getting higher!
Now who at risk? You at risk? So what you doin’?
Neighborhoods affected by all this air pollution…..
It’s not amusing. It’s a problem . It’s solution!
Decreasing carbon footprint…..it’s really not hard to do it.
I been going green since I was a little kid. In my hood the heat is killing kids!
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Get Your Green Classhttp://soundcloud.com/getyourgreen123/green-team-climate-control
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I speak for the climate. Yeah, I’m the earth’s ventriloquist!
Those heat waves, I know you feeling it.
Stop burning that coal. Use propane when you grilling it cause it could harm your respiratory
Ask these politicians for change. They ain’t doing nothing for me.
They pollute around my area cuz we ain’t in they category!
We need to take control! Of this climate!Ladder to prosperity…I’m ready to climb it!
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This country’s morals, laws…..Somebody help me find it
Our eco-death certificate. They ready to sign it!
And I ain’t having that, especially not around my habitat! And that’s mainly where it happen at!
They acting upon us. So that’s the reason why we acting back.
Protesting, lobbying,….. Going green is my hobby, man.
Stop drilling for fossils. Worry ‘bout tomorrow!
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Keep going at this rate, the whole earth going be in sorrow. No resources to borrow.
I said let’s take control of our climate and your carbon footprint, please try to decline it!
It’s getting hot! Yeah, it’s heating up! The climate’s changing! How it’s affecting us….
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Impacts---Extreme Weather
HurricanesDroughtFloods
EarthquakesTropical Cyclones
LandslidesWildFires
Heat or Cold Wavesand much more….
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Hurricane Sandy
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Hurricane Katrina
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Surge in Damaging Tornadoes
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Obliteration of Communities and Erosion of Cultures
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Who is Recovering/Returning?
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Port Gibson—Grand Gulf
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Relief, Recovery, Redevelopment
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Employment Security
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Second Wave
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Criminalization
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Who is able to respond?
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Who’s Making the Decisions?
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Who Is Delivering Assistance?
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Shifts in Agricultural Yields
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Shifts in Agricultural Yields
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Food Insecurity in the US
Corner Store Supermarket
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Feast and Famine in Urban America
Corner Store Supermarket
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Sea Level Rise
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Sea Level Rise
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Countries Disappearing of the Map?
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Profits Over People
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Anti-Regulatory Investments Company
Total Spent on Lobbying in 2010
Southern Company
$13,220,000
Edison International
$13,080,000
American Electric Power $10,313,196
Duke Energy
$4,800,000
Dominion
$2,050,000
First Energy
$1,865,000
Xcel Energy
$1,720,000
DTE Energy
$1,500,000
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Fighting Renewable Energy
Southern Company successfully opposed a plan to create a national electricity market in 2004 and has dedicated significant money and effort to fighting the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), which would require utilities to purchase 15% of their power from renewable sources by 2020.
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CNN NEWSROOM-Hurricane Issac
MALVEAUX: And Senator, finally, why is it that Plaquemines Parish did not get that support for a levee?
LANDRIEU: Because the Corps of Engineers has a formula that they use to determine where they are going to build or reinforce the levees, based on economic impact ….you get less points if there is less of an economic impact……
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CEO Compensation for 2010 at Companies Owning the Top EJ Offenders
Company CEO Name CEO Compensation
Edison International Theodore F. Craver Jr. $9,536,038
Dominion Thomas F. Farrell II $16,924,385
DTE Energy Gerald M. Anderson $5,601,383
Duke Energy James E. Rogers $8,815,181
Xcel Energy Richard C. Kelly $9,956,433
Southern Company Thomas A. Fanning $6,019,151
First Energy Anthony J. Alexander $11,627,657
[i] AFL-CIO CEO Pay Database, Accessed November 2011 http://www.aflcio.org/corporatewatch/paywatch/ceou/industry_2011.cfm
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Deepening Disparity
The average CEO compensation for these companies in 2010 was $9,782,889 while the average worker in these companies made $33,840.
On average the CEOs at these companies were compensated at 289 times the rate of compensation for the average worker.
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African Americans and Energy
$40 Billion1.1%
.01%
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Our Overall Economic Plight
While the national rate of unemployment during February 2012, was 8.3% that rate is nearly double of African Americans at 14.1%.
A report by the Pew Research Center
revealed that the wealth divide between whites and people of color hit a record high in 2009, with the median wealth of white households 20 times higher than black households
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Another Way?
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Achieving 75% waste diversion in 2030 would:
• Create 1.5 million new jobs • Lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
by 515 million tons (~72 coal plants or 50 million cars)
• Significantly reduce pollution impacting human & ecological health
Diverting Waste
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Slide courtesy Brenda Platt, ILSR
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Recycling
Recology, San Francisco’s primary recycling, composting and waste company, employs more than 1,000 workers who are represented by the Teamsters. Over 118 new employees have been
hired in recent years to sort recyclables and monitor the collection routes in order to meet San Francisco’s aggressive recycling goals.
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Diversion from Landfills=JOBS
In Seattle 2009, nearly 100,000 tons of organic waste was diverted from landfills by the city of Seattle’s program. The city of Seattle’s waste diversion efforts not only benefit the environment, but also sustain family-supporting jobs for the more than 1,000 solid waste and recycling drivers and transfer station employees in Seattle and King County who are represented by the Teamsters Union.
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Promoting Local Ownership
Local ownership programs can create two to three times as many jobs per megawatt produced. And these local jobs keep over three times as much money and wealth in a community compared to big companies.
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Promoting Energy Efficiency and Clean Energy
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Why Progressive Energy Policies?
ENERGY EFFICIENCY: The less energy we use, the less we are polluting, the less our communities are exposed to pollution, and the less we are advancing climate change, which also disproportionately harms our communities.
CLEAN ENERGY: The more clean energy we use, the less harmful energy we are using saving our community health, property values, and the sustainability of our environment.
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Energy Efficiency
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Cooperative/Low Fuel Transportation
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Wind Energy
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Solar Powered Homes/Businesses/Communities
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Churches Can Become Energy Efficient too!
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Defining Progressive Energy Policies
Renewable Portfolio Standards —States commit to a minimum amount of their energy mix that will come from renewable sources Should be mandatory Should be at least 25% by 2025
Energy Efficiency Standards —States commit to reducing their energy consumption Should be mandatory Should be at least 1% annual reduction of previous year retail
electricity sales.
Net Metering– Utility customers who generate their energy through renewable sources are able to sell excess energy generated back to the grid for the same purchasing price utility companies charge for electricity.
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Progressive Energy Policies in Region I
STATE ENERGY EFFICIENCYSTANDARD
RENEWABLE ENERGY
STANDARD
NET METERING
District of Columbia
NO YES YES
Maryland YES YES YES
STATE ENERGY EFFICIENCYSTANDARD
RENEWABLE ENERGY
STANDARD
NET METERING
AlaskaNO YES YES
ArizonaYES YES YES
CaliforniaYES YES YES
Hawaii YES YES YES
IdahoNO NO NO
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Progressive Energy Policies in Region I cont’d
STATE ENERGY EFFICIENCYSTANDARD
RENEWABLE ENERGY
STANDARD
NET METERING
District of Columbia
NO YES YES
STATE ENERGY EFFICIENCYSTANDARD
RENEWABLE ENERGY
STANDARD
NET METERING
Nevada NO YES YES
Oregon NO YES YES
Utah NO YES YES
Washington YES YES YES
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Taking Action!!
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Educating Ourselves
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HBCU Leadership in Research
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Black Leadership in Just Energy Entrepreneurship
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Taking it To the Street to Demand Corporate Social
Responsibility
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Curtailing Financing
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Local, Cooperative Communities
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Local Cooperative Communities
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Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain
the heartless.Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Legal Action--MATS Intervention
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Engaging with the EPA
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Advancing Just Policy
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Civic Engagement
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Together We CAN!
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!! JOIN US !! Start an Environmental and Climate Justice
Committee Conduct a Community Assessment and Develop an
Action Plan Start a Coal Blooded Campaign Start a Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard
Campaign Start an Energy Efficiency Standard Campaign Start a Net Metering Campaign Initiate a Clean Energy or Energy Efficiency
Demonstration Project Develop a Disaster Plan Start an Eco-District in Your Municipality Launch a Youth and College 10,000 Steps Campaign
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Our Resources 2010 Climate Justice Toolkit Coal Blooded: Putting Profits Before People—National
Report Coal Blooded Action Toolkit 10,000 Steps Youth and College Toolkit
Coming Soon Just Energy Policies State By State Compendium ECJ Comprehensive Toolkit Black Church ECJ Toolkit Beasts of the Southern Wild Discussion Guide
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What Will Your Branch Do?
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Thank YouJacqui Patterson
Director, Environmental and Climate Justice Program
443-465-9809