CNSNews.com - At a webstreamed White House Forum on environmental justice on Wednesday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called Dr. Martin Luther King a father of the environmental justice movement. Holder also said he is calling on all U.S. Attorney’s offices to start examining environmental requirements in conjunction with civil rights laws. “
Dr. Martin Luther King, who really was in some ways the father of our nation’s environmental justice movement, may have put it best when he declared, and this is a phrase that we all know, that ‘injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,’” Holder said. More
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Eric Holder:Martin Luther King, Father of the Environmental Justice Movement
CNSNews.com - At a webstreamed White House Forum on environmental justice on Wednesday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called Dr. Martin Luther King a father of the environmental justice movement. Holder also said he is calling on all U.S. Attorney’s offices to start examining environmental requirements in conjunction with civil rights laws. “Dr. Martin Luther King, who really was in some ways the father of our nation’s environmental justice movement, may have put it best when he declared, and this is a phrase that we all know, that ‘injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,’” Holder said. More here
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Disregarding Eric Holder's statements regarding MLK, environmental justice as defined by the EPA at the end of the article and established by Pres Clinton in Feb 1994 by Exec Order 12898 is a valid and honest goal. If it takes using the US civil rights law to put some additional bite marks in polluters who would prey on those who cannot fight back, so be it.
The only risk in environmental justice is if it morphs into a tooth to extract reparations from an industry that was there before the surrounding community, such as an airport that is being sued by homeowners who live under the flight path in houses that were built after the airport was in operation, an now they want their homes to be sound insulated. However, these homeowners do have a greivance if they moved in when the airport was a small, private airport, and now the airport wants to serve large commercial jets.
I read the EPA interim guidance http://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice/resources/policy/ej-rulemaking.html and found it to be reasonable.
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