More than 100 Groups Call on U.S. Senate to Address Environmental Justice

Washington, DC, July 26, 2007 – On Wednesday, professor Robert D. Bullard (Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University) presented the Senate Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health “Oversight of the EPA’s Environmental Justice Programs" hearing, chaired by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, with a copy of a letter signed by more than one hundred environmental justice networks, civil rights and human rights organizations, faith based groups, and health allies, representing millions of Americans from New York to Alaska, endorsing the 2007 United Church of Christ Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty: 1987-2007 report findings and recommendations. The groups are calling for policy changes and actions by the government to reverse the downward spiral of environmental and health protection in low-income and people of color communities. To view the letter click HERE.