Environmental Justice Quotes:

Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.

- Van Jones

source: Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2008.

topic: Justice, Community, Suffering, Environmental Justice

Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.

- Majora Carter

topic: Mean, Justice, Community, Environmental Justice

Country must confront what he called institutional racism. [We should] create a country which provides economic, social and environmental justice for all.

- Bernie Sanders

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Country, Justice For All, Racism, Institutional Racism, Environmental Justice

The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.

- Ralph Nader

topic: Rights, Essence, Environmental, Environmental Justice, Consumer Protection

The risks of transporting deadly nuclear waste, the environmental justice impacts and the long-term health effects of both these projects are untenable...We cannot afford to be silent on these important issues.

- James Cromwell

topic: Issues, Impact, Justice, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice

First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore...

- Ottmar Edenhofer

source: "UN IPCC Official Admits 'We Redistribute World's Wealth By Climate Policy' 15 Shares". www.newsbusters.org. November 18, 2010.

topic: Country, Oil, Community, Developed Country, Environmental Justice

We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.

- Barbara Boxer

topic: Fighting, Justice, Environmental, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice

Even as we continue to carry the banner of civil rights and environmental justice, we've also got to focus on many, many people - for them, life starts with a good job.

- John Hickenlooper

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Jobs, Rights, Justice, Environmental Justice

Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

- Majora Carter

source: CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2008.

topic: Justice, Environmental, Development, Bronx, Environmental Justice