EJC Advocacy Sector

Advocacy

The Environmental Justice Coalition’s Public Health, Climate Action, Energy, and Infrastructure Advocacy sectors connect with legislators, advocate for the change and other relevant environmental justice legislation, and hold town halls, phone, email, and text banks, and other advocacy events throughout the year.

Sectors

Learn more about the 4 Advocacy Sectors at EJC!

Public Health

The Public Health sector focuses on researching, developing, and advocating for policies that promote the health and wellbeing of BIPOC and marginalized communities harmed by environmental racism and ensure access to clean air and water. We work to bridge healthcare and sanitation access and quality disparities among communities that bear disproportionate environmental costs. We lobby for standards that ensure environmental health equity protections, services, and access for all to be adopted at the local, state, and federal level.

Climate Action

The Climate Action sector focuses on researching, developing, and advocating for policies to combat climate change; there is no Planet B. Climate change disproportionately impacts those who are not well equipped to deal with it: indigenous peoples, low-income communities, and the houseless population. We work to alleviate communities impacted by extreme weather events and natural disasters, such as hurricanes and snowstorms, and put protections in place for civilians at greater risk of inhaling toxins and pollutants, experiencing elevated temperatures, etc.

Energy

The Energy sector focuses on utilizing renewable energy as a vehicle to advance environmental and climate justice and reduce dependency on fossil fuels, increase energy efficiency, reduce electricity costs, increase access to green energy sources, and ensure greater energy security for low-income and BIPOC communities.

Infrastructure

The Infrastructure sector focuses on researching, developing, and advocating for policies that ensure public access to green infrastructure and proper housing, design efficient transportation and city planning systems, plan the placement of new buildings and public works off of indigenous lands and away from pollutants and toxins that will harm its residents, and include stakeholders of different socioeconomic levels in critical infrastructure and urban planning conversations.

Our Work in Maryland's Environmental Human Rights Ammendment

We took the right to pass an environmental human rights amendment to the Mraryland state constitution to social media and helped the MDEHR create a streamlined advocacy toolkit to help spread the word about their amendment! Check out the toolkit we made for them down below.