The goal of environmental justice is to achieve equal consideration for low income people and people of color in environmental, land-use, economic, health, and community development planning.

Edens Lost & Found suggests these links as a beginning on your quest for environmental justice:

Environmental Justice Resource Center Research, policy, and information clearinghouse on issues related to environmental justice, race and the environment, civil rights, facility siting, ...

Livable Places looks at environmental justice through the lens of what cities can do -- and are doing -- to ensure affordable housing.

Environmental Justice Foundation Training tomorrow's activists, empowering people to protect their own environment.

Community Coalition for Environmental Justice Our mission is to create a community coalition which identifies and eliminates environmental decisions from impacting unfairly on groups ill-equipped to advocate for themselves.

Working Group on Environmental Justice A group of scholars and activists committed to doing further research and promoting effective action to advance the cause of environmental justice.

Environmental Justice Scorecard by environmental defense The subject of environmental justice is important, sensitive, and hard to measure. ... Environmental justice analyses are also available in Spanish.

NYCEnvironmental Justice Alliance - A city-wide network that links grassroots organizations, low-income neighborhoods, and communities of color in their struggle for Environmental Justice.

Environmental Justice Office of the Presbyterian Church Why does the Presbyterian Church (USA) have an environmental justice office?

Sierra Club Environmental Justice Program.

Environmental Justice & Health Union - Environmental justice became a national social movement in the 1980's to collectively speak out for environmental justice.

Fighting Enviromental Racism: A Selected Annotated Bibliography Minorities and the poor in their struggles for environmental justice are dealt with in this list of materials to read for background, understanding, and activism.

Environmental Defense - committed to finding solutions that are equitable, environmentally sound and economically viable. By promoting the concept of environmental justice, we are working with local groups and citizen coalitions to create greener, more healthy communities.

Scotland's First Minister Jack McConnell made a major speech on environmental policy at a conference in Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh, on February 18, 2002. These are excerpts of what he had to say.

Environmental Justice: Creating Equity, Reclaiming Democracy by Kristin Shrader-Frechette, O'Neill Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Biological Science, University of Notre Dame:

"Environmental problems do not affect everyone equally. Environmental injustice occurs whenever innocent people bear disproportionate environmental risks, have unequal access to goods like clean air, or have unequal voice in imposition of environmental risks. Most minorities and poor people are victims of environmental injustice, either because of their increased health risks or because of the way their rights are limited, even in a democracy. Using case studies focusing on offshore oil, Appalachian coal, California farmland, Louisiana hazardous facilities, Nevada nuclear waste dumps, exploitation of indigenous people, African oil drilling, workplace risks, and shipment of banned products to developing nations, the author shows how flawed scientific methods, flawed ethics, and flawed policy contribute to environmental injustice. The final two chapters argue for ordinary citizens's duties to fight against environmental injustice, and it suggests some strategies for doing so."