Environmental Justice and Public Health
Community Impact of Coal Slurry Injection and a Successful Redevelopment Project
In much of Central Appalachia, waste from the processing of coal prior to market is disposed of by injection into old underground mine works or by impounding the waste behind earthen dams. This has caused water contamination in some of the most impoverished areas of Appalachia.
No Economic Benefits in Your Grant Proposal? No Problem!
The reuse or revitalization of tribal brownfield sites often involves important benefits that do not directly contribute to jobs or the local economy. These benefits may be cultural, improve the tribal land base, or provide other non-economic contributions to the local community. Attendees can learn from successful tribal grantees how to communicate the importance of these benefits in assessment and cleanup grant proposals to improve the chances of being selected for funding.
Brownfield Revitalization, Gentrification, and Equitable Development: Evaluating a Decade of EPA Brownfields Program
The issue of gentrification and displacement as a result of brownfield revitalization activities has been raised at Brownfields Conferences through the years. However, many still feel that gentrification is a real unintentional effect of the EPA’s Brownfields Program. This session provides an overview of where this discussion began, describes EPA efforts to promote equitable development, and facilitates a candid discussion about proposed solutions for advancing truly equitable development.
Strategies to Capture Green Jobs in Older Industrial Communities
Many older urban cities that have lost manufacturing jobs are positioning themselves to benefit from the emerging green economy. This practitioner-oriented session involves presentations by economic development strategists who have experience developing green job plans for manufacturing belt cities and towns.
Film Screening: Split Estate
Imagine discovering that you do not own the mineral rights under your land and that an energy company plans to drill for natural gas two hundred feet from your front door. Imagine having little recourse other than accepting an unregulated industry in your backyard. Split Estate maps a tragedy in the making, as citizens in the path of a new drilling boom in the Rocky Mountain West struggle against the erosion of their civil liberties, their communities, and their health. Part I of the Hydraulic Fracturing Film Series.
Environmental Justice in Action: Building Successful Partnerships and Leveraging Resources
This roundtable discussion highlights the role of local government in successful environmental justice projects and discusses the case studies of Rock Hill, South Carolina; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Panelists examine the similarities and differences of their projects and invite participants to share their own challenges and successes.
Increasing Tribal Environmental Cleanup Capacity
Important elements of tribal response programs funded under CERCLA Section 128(a) are the development of legal and other mechanisms to oversee environmental cleanups to ensure they will be protective and the development of mechanisms for approval of a cleanup plan and verification and certification that cleanup is complete. In this interactive discussion session, tribes with experience in developing successful programs give presentations on various types of cleanup programs and how they were developed, followed by a moderated discussion on how tribes can incre
