Factsheets

Responding to Environmental Impacts on Communities

• Using environmental laws and ADR to achieve environmental justice (PDF)
• Risk assessment (PDF)
• Cumulative risks (PDF)
• Community-Based Participatory Research (PDF)
• Alternative Dispute Resolution (PDF)

Legal Tools for Collecting Information

• Environmental authorities to produce information that addresses EJ (PDF)
• Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (PDF)
• Freedom of Information Act (PDF)

Environmental Law: General Principles

• Pollution prevention (PDF)
• Intro to environmental laws (PDF)
• Standard Setting—EJ hooks (PDF)
• General permitting process (PDF)
• Permitting—EJ hooks (PDF)
• Permitting (PDF)
• Siting (PDF)
• Supplemental Environmental Projects (PDF)
• Delegation—EJ hooks (PDF)
• Delegation (PDF)

Federal Environmental Laws

• Federal laws (PDF)
• Clean Air Act—EJ hooks (PDF)
• Clean Air Act (PDF)
• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act—EJ hooks (PDF)
• Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (PDF)
• Brownfields—EJ hooks (PDF)
• Clean Water Act—EJ hooks (PDF)
• Clean Water Act Supplement (PDF)
• Clean Water Act (PDF)
• Safe Drinking Water Act—EJ hooks (PDF)
• Safe Drinking Water Act (PDF)
• Infrastructure—EJ hooks (PDF)

Reference

• Glossary (PDF)
• Acronyms (PDF)

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