Post by account_disabled on Feb 16, 2024 22:21:06 GMT -10
The Environmental Protection Agency today named 11 “grantors,” universities and nonprofit organizations, who will be in charge of doling out $600 million in federal funds for locally led environmental projects. It is a new strategy aimed at facilitating access to financing for small grassroots groups, especially those most affected by pollution. Those groups will be able to apply for grants from EPA donors, who have been assigned to oversee funds for certain regions. The 11 donors include some of the most prominent voices fighting a legacy of racism and environmental injustice in the United States.
That includes the Climate Justice Alliance (CJA), made Europe Mobile Number List up of member organizations across the United States, from Brooklyn's oldest Latino community organization, UPROSE, to the Environmental Transformation Movement of Flint, Michigan, and the Asia Environmental Network Pacific in California. For years, CJA has called on lawmakers and philanthropists, including the Bezos Earth Fund, to put more funds in the hands of community organizations that represent neighborhoods most affected by pollution and climate change. There has been much research showing how communities of color and low-income neighborhoods are disproportionately exposed.
Texas Southern University, a historically black university, is another notable donor. It is home to the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice, founded by none other than the man often called the father of environmental justice: Robert Bullard. In he published a book titled Dixie Dumping about toxic waste sites located in black communities across the United States. The book traced the links between race, class, and environmental health. Since then, there has been much research showing how communities of color and low-income.