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- 1. Presented By: Na’Taki Y. Osborne, MPH National Wildlife Federation West Atlanta Watershed Alliance Spelman College – Environmental Science & Studies Program Environmental Justice: A Tool for Reducing Environmental Health Threats in Low Income and Communities of Color
- 2. What is Environmental Racism?
- 12. Fair treatment implies that no person or group of people should shoulder a disproportionate share of negative environmental impacts as a result of a country’s domestic or foreign policies.
- 17. Local Environmental Justice Case Study: Atlanta, GA
- 23. The West Atlanta Watershed
- 28. CSOs AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS CSO 1-Mi. Radius Population % Black % White % Other Median Income Clear Creek 9,390 9.1 88.8 3.9 $54,551 Tanyard Branch 11,053 10.4 86.7 5.2 $50,899 North Avenue 5,948 80.5 18.4 2.9 $13,865 Greens-ferry 17,135 99.3 0.3 0.8 $15,718 Utoy Creek – North 12,561 98.2 1.6 0.3 $26,360
- 29. CSOs AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS Cont. CSO 1-Mi. Radius Population % Black % White % Other Median Income Utoy Creek – South 14,280 97.8 2.0 0.4 $28,256 McDaniel Street 16,077 93.3 6.3 1.1 $14,045 Custer Avenue 10,864 54.6 33.0 28.0 $25,098 Intrench-ment Creek 5,846 87.5 11.6 36.4 $22,422
- 30. 5 of 7 areas serviced by combined sewers are predominantly black communities
- 31. A Question of Environmental Racism?
- 32. National Environmental Justice Case Study: New Orleans, LA
- 38. Over the Years… New Orleans Communities have been plagued by the impacts of…
- 39. Environmental and health hazards
- 40. Water Pollution…
- 41. Air Pollution…
- 42. Today, the struggle continues…
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- Our work in the Chattahoochee River has begun in the West Atlanta Watersheds of Proctor, Sandy, and Utoy Creeks. The entire West Atlanta Watershed includes two additional watersheds that are not shown on this map, Peachtree and Nancy Creeks, however these two watersheds had a number of organizations working with them and a number of resources available to them when NWF started its project so we chose the work where there was a greater need, these three watersheds. Other organizations including our primary partner organization, the Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, have been successful working in and mobilizing citizens to actions in the more affluent and resource heavy watersheds, Peachtree and Nancy, but few have had much sustainable progress in these three. Because of NWF’s grassroots, bottom up approach and sensitivity to ways to work with diverse audiences, we have not only been successful in moving citizens in these three watersheds from awareness to action, but in putting these under-served watersheds on the map. We started our work in Proctor, Utoy, and Sandy Creek because they represent the most polluted tributaries of the Hooch in the metro Atlanta area and because they are home to previously underutilized constituencies in conservation and watershed protection work. We have been working with this constituency to help them change their reality of being the most overburdened with environmental stressors and pollution and the least represented at environmental decision making tables to being a citizenry recognized as being attentive and active on issues impacting their watersheds and communities.
- Source: U.S. EPA (1996). All data from Landview III CD-ROM, 1992 census data.