NCEJN Blog

Here you can explore articles and stories that we are telling from the front-lines of climate change.

Sponsor the 2020 EJ Summit!

We need your support. Over the past few years, the NC Environmental Justice Summits have been the largest gatherings in the Summit’s 20+ year history. Our attendees include community organizers, lawyers, scholars, students, youth, and government officials. We could...

Steve Wing International Environmental Justice Award

WE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS FOR 2020. Please send any supporting materials via email to: NCEJN EJ Summit CoordinatorsEmail: ncejsummit@gmail.com  History and Overview In 2007 Gary R. Grant proposed the SWIEJ Award to annually recognize an academic who has...

NCEJN Community Resilience Award

WE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS FOR 2020. Please send any supporting materials via email to: NCEJN EJ Summit Coordinators Email: ncejsummit@gmail.com Overview The Community Resilience Award is designed to give the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network...

EJ Youth Vanguard Award

WE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS FOR 2020. Overview  We believe in our young people and their desire to make our communities cleaner, safer, and productive. Environmental justice (EJ) means that people of all races, cultures, and incomes should be able to live in...

Say NO to Enviva’s expansion!

Every single year, the wood pellet industry destroys tens of thousands of acres of Southern forests, turns them into wood pellets, and ships them overseas to be burned for electricity in faraway power stations. The world’s largest wood pellet producer, Enviva, is...

June Quarterly Meeting

Join us for NCEJN’s second Quarterly Meeting of 2019! BE SURE TO RSVP.

We’ll be discussing Environmental Justice issue updates in North Carolina and learning from impacted communities. Attend to learn more and find out how you can get involved!

Continental breakfast & lunch will be served.

Constitutional Challenge to 711 & 467

NC Environmental Justice Network, Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help (REACH), Waterkeepers Alliance, and Winyah Rivers Alliance have filed a constitutional challenge to state laws limiting nuisance suits against industrial hog operations, contending...