by Sanzari Aranyak | Mar 17, 2023 | EJ Issues, Get Involved
View this email in your browser Critical meetings where your voice or support is needed… all times noted in Eastern Standard Time Sat. March 18 at 1:00 pm – Environmental Justice Community Action Network is hosting their monthly meeting at Snow Hill Baptist...
by Rania Masri | Feb 13, 2023 | EJ Issues, Events, Quarterly Meetings
Register here: https://secure.givelively.org/event/north-carolina-environmental-justice-network/ncejn-quarterly-meeting-at-ejcan
by Rania Masri | Jan 19, 2023 | EJ Issues, People of Color
NCEJN is happy to publicize this event: Reimagining America Project (RAP) is organizing a virtual form entitled ‘The Human Cost of Hog Waste’ on January 26 at 7 pm. “For decades, industrial hog farming has fattened the wallets of white corporate...
by Rania Masri | Jan 4, 2023 | EJ Issues, Human Health & EJ, Partner Organizations
Forty organizations working for environmental justice in North Carolina signed onto a letter by the Southern Environmental Law Center to the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) regarding its allocation of Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) funds. NRCS will...
by Acacia | May 25, 2020 | EJ Indicators, EJ Issues
The Issue The world’s first-ever black wood pellet plant is coming to Lumberton, North Carolina (Robeson County), a predominantly black & low-income rural community already burdened by numerous sources of environmental harm. The community is concerned about...
by Acacia | Aug 22, 2019 | EJ Issues
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...