Under Executive Order 12898, federal agencies will make environmental justice core to their mission and practices; requiring each to create agency-wide environmental justice strategies, amongst other important goals.
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As You Sow’s Racial Justice Initiative has tracked whether corporations acknowledge systemic racism, and whether they back that statement up with community involvement and advocacy.
Food deserts are geographic areas where at least one third of the urban population lives more than 1 mile away from a supermarket (USDA, 2009). Today, 12.8% of the population (39 million people) live in food deserts.
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From Flint’s lead-filled water to Richmond’s poisoned air – corporations and municipal governments have been allowed to pollute and poison marginalized communities.
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