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• WHEJAC Amended Charter

  Charter for the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, outlining the committee's objectives, scope, duties, and administrative protocols. First approved March 2, 2023, amended January 5, 2024. The WHEJAC will provide independent advice and recommendations to the chair of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and to the White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council (IAC) on how to increase the federal government’s efforts to address current and historic environmental injustice. The WHEJAC will provide advice and recommendations about broad cross-cutting issues related, but not limited, to issues of environmental justice and pollution reduction, energy, climate change mitigation and resiliency, environmental health, and racial inequity.
• The Cost of Burning Trash

  The Cost of Burning Trash. Looking at the Human and Ecological Impacts of incineration in Florida, Massachusetts, New York, Pennslyvannia and Minnesota.
• U.S. Municipal Solid Waste Incinerators

  Report: U.S. Municipal Solid Waste Incinerators. This report examines three major economic vulnerabilities in the MSW incinerator industry. This report was prepared by Ana Isabel Baptista, PhD, and Adrienne Perovich, MPA, with assistance from Amanda Sachs, Anna Yulsman, Brandon Jordan, Claudia Rot, and Kevin Capuno, Research Assistants at the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School with support granted by Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) in collaboration with Ahmina Maxey. Contributors to the report include Doun Moon, Aiko Fukichi, Claire Arkin, Denise Patel, and Monica Wilson at GAIA as well as Destiny Watford at United Workers, KT Andresky at Breathe Free Detroit, and Whitney Amaya at East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice.
• Environmental Justice and Philanthropy: Challenges and Opportunities for Alignment Gulf South and Midwest Case Studies

  Environmental Justice and Philanthropy: Challenges and Opportunities for Alignment Gulf South and Midwest Case Studies. Report was prepared by Ana Isabel Baptista, Ph.D., and Adrienne Perovich, MPA, with assistance from Anna Yulsman, Program Coordinator, as well as doctoral students, Molly Greenberg, and Jennifer Santos Ramirez, who serve as research assistants at the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School.
• Local Policies for Environmental Justice

  The report Local Policies for Environmental Justice, provides a comprehensive look at recent efforts in 23 cities, three counties and two utilities across the United States to address environmental injustices through innovative reforms of zoning,land use, and other local policies. It was prepared by Ana Isabel Baptista, PhD, with assistance from Amanda Sachs and Claudia Rot, Research Assistants at the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School.
• False Solutions for Just Climate Mitigation and Clean Energy Policies

  False Solutions for Just Climate Mitigation and Clean Energy Policies draws on a review of policies and interviews with community leaders to explore how false solutions are present or emerging in the energy policies of three states, New Jersey, Delaware, and Minnesota. This report was prepared by Ana Isabel Baptista, Ph.D. and Jennifer Ventrella, Ph.D. Student, who are part of the research team at the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School.
• Understanding the Evolution of Cumulative Impacts: Definitions and Policies in the U.S

  This research is aimed at supporting EJ movement stakeholders and policymakers with a searchable tool of definitions, indicators, thresholds, and benefits in the various Cumulative Impact policies developed to date.This report was prepared by Ana Isabel Baptista, Ph.D., Adrienne Perovich, MPA, and research assistants Maria Fernanda Pulido-Velosa, Enrique Valencia, Marisa Valdez, and Jennifer Ventrella, who are part of the research team at Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School.
• Justice40 Recommendations

  This is an executive summary of the Justice40 recommendations that emerged from the convenings of environmental justice (EJ) advocates, academic experts and national environmental groups on December 2, 2020, and January 27, 2021 by The Equitable and Just National Climate Forum, the New School’s Tishman Environment and Design Center, and the Center for American Progress. This was to identify actions that the Biden administration should take to effectively implement the goal of targeting 40 percent of the overall climate investment benefit to disadvantaged communities.
• Climate Justice in Action: Communities working toward just transitions Report

  Climate Justice in Action: Communities working toward just transitions report prepared in collaboration with the Climate Justice Alliance. Sponsored by the Tishman Environment & Design Center at The New School.
• Environmental Justice: The Clean Power Plan: The Case of Energy Efficiency

  Environmental Justice: The Clean Power Plan: The Case of Energy Efficiency, report by Cecilia Martinez. Commissioned by the New School, with the intent that versions of them will be published by the William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review.
• Garbage, Power, and Environmental Justice: The Clean Power Plan Rule

  Garbage, Power, and Environmental Justice: The Clean Power Plan Rule. Report. by Ana Isabel Baptista, PhD and Kumar Kartik Amarnath, MS as a part of a Visiting Scholars Series on the Environmental Justice implications of the US EPA's Clean Power Plan rule.
• Testimony of Ana Isabel Baptista to House Select Committee

  Testimony of Ana Isabel Baptista, PhD to House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis in 2020.
• Michelle DePass' testimony on the Clean Power Plan

  Michelle DePass' testimony around decision of the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to repeal the Clean Power Plan.
• Grassroots Environmental Justice Work and Philanthropy: Challenges and Opportunities

  Article for the journal The Foundation Review. Grassroots Environmental Justice Work and Philanthropy: Challenges and Opportunities is written by Jennifer S. Ramirez, Ph.D., Ana I. Baptista, Ph.D., Molly Greenberg, M.S.W., Adrienne Perovich, M.P.A., and Anna Yulsman, M.A., The New School; Antonio Lopez, Ph.D., Chicago Frontlines Funding Initiative, and Andrew Rosenberg, Ph.D., Union of Concerned Scientists
• Landscape Assessment of EJ Movement Report

  Article for the journal: Environmental Justice. Appears in Volume 00, Number 00 and titled Landscape Assessment of the US Environmental Justice Movement: Transformative Strategies for Climate Justice
• Opportunities One Pager

  In 2020, the BEA-I collaborated with the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School to conduct an assessment of the misalignment between the environmental justice (EJ) and philanthropic sectors in the Gulf South and Midwest regions. Through interviews with foundation and environmental justice organization staff, the study found specific opportunities for better aligning funding and relationships over time. These opportunities represent both long-term and short-term actions and can be implemented across the sectors.
• Funding Disparity

  In 2020, the BEA-I collaborated with the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School to conduct an assessment of the misalignment between the environmental justice (EJ) and philanthropic sectors in the Gulf South and Midwest regions. The study also identified areas of funding disparity within EJ funding.
• Alignment of Priority Issue Areas

  In 2020, the BEA-I collaborated with the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School to conduct an assessment of the misalignment between the environmental justice (EJ) and philanthropic sectors in the Gulf South and Midwest regions. This one pager focuses on identified areas of opportunity to build greater alignment over time.
• Document: Gulf Coast Fund Emergency Response Grant Recipients

  List of Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health grants distributed for the June 15, 2010 grant cycle. A total of $41,600 was distributed in this grant cycle.
• Document: Gulf Coast Fund Priority Areas of Funding

  List of Gulf Coast Fund priority areas of funding and associated descriptions.
• Document: Request for Proposals for Gulf Coast Fund Grants (Fall 2006)

  Request for proposals guidelines for 2006 fall grant cycles for the Gulf Coast Ecological Health and Community Renewal Fund.
• Document: Gulf Coast Fund Code Of Conduct & Conflict of Interest Policy

  Code of conduct & conflict of interest policy for the Gulf Coast Ecological Health and Community Renewal Fund.
• Document: Gulf Coast Fund Emergency Response Grant Application Form

  Application form for Gulf Coast Fund emergency response grants, designed to support ongoing projects in communities impacted by the BP oil drilling disaster.
• Document: Gulf Coast Fund Advisory Members

  A list of the advisory group members for the Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal & Ecological Health.
• Document: Steps for Setting up a Collaborative Grantmaking Fund

  A guide outlining the steps taken to set up a Collaborative Grantmaking Fund that ensures the delivery of resources is rapid and effective by following a bottom-up approach.