City governments increasingly encounter environmental justice claims in environmental and land use planning and permitting. The environmental justice doctrine mandates fair treatment of people of all races, cultures and in come with respect to the development, implementation and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations and policies.
Environmental justice combines civil rights and environmental protection concerns.
It is also about local grassroots power. He charges them with glacial pacing, benign sloth, the need for a body count, aspirational myopia, duck and cover response, do nothing agency, and raising false hopes. He discussed failure to find causes in the Summary of Investigations by the California Birth Defects Monitoring Program of Suspected Birth Defect Clusters, 1981-1992. Proof of causation and overt discriminatory purpose are difficult in environmental justice cases. In the past decade, law reviews, federal agencies, private research studies and other media have devoted significant attention to environmental justice.