Environmental justice communities definition

Environmental justice communities means the definition

Environmental justice communities means communities of color, communities experiencing lower incomes, tribal communities, rural communities, coastal communities, communities with limited infrastructure and other communities traditionally underrepresented in public processes and adversely harmed by environmental and health hazards, including seniors, youth and persons with disabilities.

Environmental justice communities means the proposed

Examples of Environmental justice communities in a sentence

• Environmental justice communities, as defined by the Illinois Power Agency pursuant to the Illinois Power Agency Act, but excluding racial and ethnic indicators, where residents have historically been subject to disproportionate burdens of pollution, including pollution from the energy sector.

• Environmental justice communities can serve as learning laboratories for constructive innovation.

• Environmental justice communities seeking information about prior complaints or previous Title VI enforcement efforts should not each be required to request such basic information through public records requests.

• Environmental justice communities in Oregon are disproportionately burdened by air contamination, including through disproportionate risk of the impacts of climate change.

• Environmental justice communities are on the frontlines of exposure to the fossil fuel facilities, incinerators, and biofuel facilities that pollute their air, land, and water.

More Definitions of Environmental justice communities

Environmental justice communities means the definition of that term based on existing methodologies and findings, used and as may be updated by the Illinois Power Agency and its program administrator in the Illinois Solar for All Program. [20 ILCS 627/45(b)]

Environmental justice communities means communities of

Environmental justice communities or “EJC” means, communities as defined by the IPA pursuant to subsection (b) of Section 1-56 of the IPA Act, where residents have historically been subject to disproportionate burdens of pollution, including pollution from the energy sector.

Environmental justice communities means communities of color, communities ex-

Environmental justice communities refers to communities of color, immigrants, refugees, people with low incomes, and limited English-proficient individuals.

Environmental justice communities means communities where residents are predominantly Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, or low-income; where residents have been excluded from the environmental policy setting or decision-making process; where they are subject to a disproportionate impact from one or more environmental hazards; or where residents experience disparate implementation of environmental regulations, requirements, practices and activities in their communities.

Environmental justice communities means the definition of that term based on existing methodologies and findings, used and as may be updated by the Illinois Power Agency and its Program Administrator in the Illinois Solar for All Program. [220 ILCS 16- 105.17(b)]