What the 2023 Legislative Session Means for Frontline Communities

The Washington State Legislature wrapped up the 2023 legislative session in late April. There was a lot on the line this year as the legislature was ...

Our Legislative Agenda - Front and Centered

For the 2024 legislative session, our coalition of frontline communities has chosen to focus on reducing pollution in our most at-risk and overburdened ...

Clean Energy Permitting Reform | Citizens' Climate Lobby

Any proposed permitting reform legislation should protect the health and safety of American people and communities first. An improved permitting process would ...

Senate Budget Priorities - Washington Conservation Action

2023 LEGISLATIVE SESSION environmentalpriorities.org. WEEK OF MARCH 27, 2023 ... Ways & Means ... legislative session to help focus environmental community ...

2023 Legislative Session Recap | National Caucus of Environmental ...

In the wake of consequential midterm elections and a divided U.S. Congress, states continued their leadership on policy solutions for combating ...

Frontline Communities & Cumulative Impacts

During the 2023 legislative session, the FCPC, guided by the existing work of North Minneapolis' Community Members for Environmental Justice (CMEJ), helped ...

Climate Dispatch: News from Inside the Capitol - Sierra Club

Legislative sessions are not typically associated with moments of ... The Frontline Communities Protection Act will stop the State from ...

The work begins to ensure the new Cumulative Impacts Law ...

In the 2023 legislative session, the State of Minnesota enacted the Frontline Communities ... This means a change to the way facilities that create air ...

2023 Minnesota Legislative Session Wrap-Up

→ The Frontline Communities Protection Act, also known as the Cumulative Impacts Bill. ... An environmental justice community is defined as ...

Justice40 Initiative | Environmental Justice | The White House

These investments will help confront decades of underinvestment in disadvantaged communities and bring critical resources to communities that have been ...

Climate Justice Policy Options

To advance climate justice, state legislation needs to identify and center environmental justice communities, build an inclusive economy, ...

Breaking down Minnesota's cumulative impacts law

Last spring, Minnesota lawmakers passed the Frontline Communities ... These zones were defined by lawmakers during the 2023 legislative session.

Environmental & Climate Justice - NAACP

Frontline communities are affected the most when it comes to natural disasters. Get more information on the different types of natural disasters and how to ...

Minnesota's Cumulative Impacts Law: Rulemaking

In the 2023 Minnesota legislative session, we saw the passage of an important environmental justice law; the cumulative impacts law. This law is currently ...

2023 Legislative Session Summary - SEIU503 Local

Oregon's 2023 legislative session has ended, and through the advocacy of our members managed to pass the majority of our priority bills.

2023 at the State House and the Road Ahead | ACLU of Maine

We won a number of victories during the 2023 legislative session, from expanding abortion access to protecting criminal legal reforms.

Justice40 Initiative - Climate Program Office

Program Definition of Disadvantaged Communities (known hereafter as frontline communities). Frontline communities are defined here as those communities who ...

Climate Justice - City of Tacoma

To promote accessibility and participation, the City paid frontline community members to attend meetings ... WHAT DO WE MEAN BY FRONTLINE COMMUNITIES? Frontline ...

Disadvantaged Communities - NYSERDA - NY.gov

An interactive map that identifies areas throughout the State that meet the interim criteria identified for a disadvantaged community as defined by New York ...

Legislative Update: The intersection of opportunity and action

At the midpoint of the 2023 legislative session in Minnesota, our elected leaders are busier than ever enacting climate legislation.