Environmental and Climate Justice Region I

The Path to Transformation for Our Communities

OVERVIEW

What We’re Up Against

What Are Our Assets

How Do We Eliminate Threats and Optimize Our Strengths

Re-envisioning Community

Our Current Course

Waste and Communities

Where does American’s waste really go?

Waste

Waste Being Dumped in Our Communities

Landfills in Region IAlaska: 3Arizona: 20California: 112Hawaii: 8Idaho: 6Nevada: 4Oregon: 11Utah:11Washington:14

Landfills

Kettleman City and Buttonwillow are two of three low-income, Latino communities where California’s

toxic waste dumps are located. Both have experienced unexplained birth defect clusters, high

cancer rates and other health effects

Incinerators

Incinerators

Stericycle, Inc. operates Utah’s only commercial medical waste incinerator in Salt Lake City Utah. •Last commercial medical waste incinerator in the western region as Stericycle has replaced incineration in both California and Arizona with safer, non-incineration treatment technologies. •Stericycle burns waste from all over Utah and California, Arizona, Colorado and Texas at the facility in North Salt Lake City.

Energy Production

Industry and our Children

http://content.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/smokestack/index

Deepwater Horizon Incident

Richmond Oil Refinery—A History of Environmental Injustice

Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking)

Effects of Fracking

Brainbridge, Ohio: home explosion and contaminated drinking waterGranger Township, Ohio: explosive levels of natural gas in community’s

drinking water (federal level of explosivity is 1% and inside one of the homes tested was an alarming 20%)

Fracking Accidents

Appomattox, VirginiaNatural gas pipeline explosion

Halliburton Loophole

Nuclear Reactors in the US

Nuclear Waste Shipped From California to Utah

Failing Coal Plants in Region I

ArizonaCity Plant

Name3-mile

Average Income

State Income

Percentage

3-mile P.O.C.

Population

Grade

Tucson H.Wilson Sundt

$10,258 50.6% 74.7% F

Joseph City

Cholla $13,096 64.6% 27.3% D

Saint Johns

Coronado $12,470 61.5% 33.4% D

Page Navajo $18,294 90.2% 38.4% D+

Springerville

Springerville $13,255 65.4% 31.0% D+

H Wilson Sundt Generating Station

Tucson, AZ

California

City Plant Name 3-mile Average Income

State Income

Percentage

3-Mile P.O.C.

Population

Grade

Trona ACE Cogeneratio

n

$16,347 72.0% 24.1% D+

ACE CongenerationTrona, California

Hawaii

City Plant Name

3-mile Average Income

State Income

Percentage

3-Mile P.O.C.

Population

Grade

Kapolei AES Hawaii

$20,931 97.2% 87.0% F

Kahe Power PlantLeeward, Oahu

Nevada

City Plant Name

3-mile Average Income

State Income

Percentage

3-Mile P.O.C.

Population

Grade

Moapa Reid Gardner

$14,392 65.5% 52.8% D-

Reid-Gardner Power PlantMoapa, Nevada

Oregon

City Plant Name

3-mile Average Income

State Income

Percentage

3-Mile P.O.C.

Population

Grade

Boardman Boardman $13,982 66.8% 48.6% D-

Boardman Coal PlantBoardman, Oregon

Effects of Polluting Waste and Energy Facilities

Effects of Pollution

Climate Change

Climate Change

We need to take control!We need to take control!We need to take control! Of this climate!<Repeat>

It’s getting hot! Yeah it’s heating up!!

The climate’s changing! How it’s affecting us!!

You mean the floods storms, droughts, and fires.

And heat related deaths in the US is getting higher!

Now who at risk? You at risk? So what you doin’?

Neighborhoods affected by all this air pollution…..

It’s not amusing. It’s a problem . It’s solution!

Decreasing carbon footprint…..it’s really not hard to do it.

I been going green since I was a little kid. In my hood the heat is killing kids!

Get Your Green Classhttp://soundcloud.com/getyourgreen123/green-team-climate-control

I speak for the climate. Yeah, I’m the earth’s ventriloquist!

Those heat waves, I know you feeling it.

Stop burning that coal. Use propane when you grilling it cause it could harm your respiratory

Ask these politicians for change. They ain’t doing nothing for me.

They pollute around my area cuz we ain’t in they category!

We need to take control! Of this climate!Ladder to prosperity…I’m ready to climb it!

This country’s morals, laws…..Somebody help me find it

Our eco-death certificate. They ready to sign it!

And I ain’t having that, especially not around my habitat! And that’s mainly where it happen at!

They acting upon us. So that’s the reason why we acting back.

Protesting, lobbying,….. Going green is my hobby, man.

Stop drilling for fossils. Worry ‘bout tomorrow!

Keep going at this rate, the whole earth going be in sorrow. No resources to borrow.

I said let’s take control of our climate and your carbon footprint, please try to decline it!

It’s getting hot! Yeah, it’s heating up! The climate’s changing! How it’s affecting us….

Impacts---Extreme Weather

HurricanesDroughtFloods

EarthquakesTropical Cyclones

LandslidesWildFires

Heat or Cold Wavesand much more….

Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Katrina

Surge in Damaging Tornadoes

Obliteration of Communities and Erosion of Cultures

Who is Recovering/Returning?

Port Gibson—Grand Gulf

Relief, Recovery, Redevelopment

Employment Security

Second Wave

Criminalization

Who is able to respond?

Who’s Making the Decisions?

Who Is Delivering Assistance?

Shifts in Agricultural Yields

Shifts in Agricultural Yields

Food Insecurity in the US

Corner Store Supermarket

Feast and Famine in Urban America

Corner Store Supermarket

Sea Level Rise

Sea Level Rise

Countries Disappearing of the Map?

Profits Over People

Anti-Regulatory Investments Company

 

Total Spent on Lobbying in 2010

 

Southern Company 

$13,220,000

Edison International 

$13,080,000

American Electric Power $10,313,196

Duke Energy 

$4,800,000

Dominion 

$2,050,000

First Energy 

$1,865,000

Xcel Energy 

$1,720,000

DTE Energy 

$1,500,000

Fighting Renewable Energy

Southern Company successfully opposed a plan to create a national electricity market in 2004 and has dedicated significant money and effort to fighting the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), which would require utilities to purchase 15% of their power from renewable sources by 2020.

CNN NEWSROOM-Hurricane Issac

MALVEAUX: And Senator, finally, why is it that Plaquemines Parish did not get that support for a levee?

LANDRIEU: Because the Corps of Engineers has a formula that they use to determine where they are going to build or reinforce the levees, based on economic impact ….you get less points if there is less of an economic impact……

CEO Compensation for 2010 at Companies Owning the Top EJ Offenders

 

Company CEO Name CEO Compensation

Edison International Theodore F. Craver Jr. $9,536,038

Dominion Thomas F. Farrell II $16,924,385

DTE Energy Gerald M. Anderson $5,601,383

Duke Energy James E. Rogers $8,815,181

Xcel Energy Richard C. Kelly $9,956,433

Southern Company Thomas A. Fanning $6,019,151

First Energy Anthony J. Alexander $11,627,657

[i] AFL-CIO CEO Pay Database, Accessed November 2011 http://www.aflcio.org/corporatewatch/paywatch/ceou/industry_2011.cfm

Deepening Disparity

The average CEO compensation for these companies in 2010 was $9,782,889 while the average worker in these companies made $33,840.

On average the CEOs at these companies were compensated at 289 times the rate of compensation for the average worker.

African Americans and Energy

$40 Billion1.1%

.01%

Our Overall Economic Plight

While the national rate of unemployment during February 2012, was 8.3% that rate is nearly double of African Americans at 14.1%.

A report by the Pew Research Center

revealed that the wealth divide between whites and people of color hit a record high in 2009, with the median wealth of white households 20 times higher than black households

Another Way?

Achieving 75% waste diversion in 2030 would:

• Create 1.5 million new jobs • Lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions

by 515 million tons (~72 coal plants or 50 million cars)

• Significantly reduce pollution impacting human & ecological health

Diverting Waste

Slide courtesy Brenda Platt, ILSR

Recycling

Recology, San Francisco’s primary recycling, composting and waste company, employs more than 1,000 workers who are represented by the Teamsters. Over 118 new employees have been

hired in recent years to sort recyclables and monitor the collection routes in order to meet San Francisco’s aggressive recycling goals.

Diversion from Landfills=JOBS

In Seattle 2009, nearly 100,000 tons of organic waste was diverted from landfills by the city of Seattle’s program. The city of Seattle’s waste diversion efforts not only benefit the environment, but also sustain family-supporting jobs for the more than 1,000 solid waste and recycling drivers and transfer station employees in Seattle and King County who are represented by the Teamsters Union.

Promoting Local Ownership

Local ownership programs can create two to three times as many jobs per megawatt produced. And these local jobs keep over three times as much money and wealth in a community compared to big companies.

Promoting Energy Efficiency and Clean Energy

Why Progressive Energy Policies?

ENERGY EFFICIENCY: The less energy we use, the less we are polluting, the less our communities are exposed to pollution, and the less we are advancing climate change, which also disproportionately harms our communities.

CLEAN ENERGY: The more clean energy we use, the less harmful energy we are using saving our community health, property values, and the sustainability of our environment.

Energy Efficiency

Cooperative/Low Fuel Transportation

Wind Energy

Solar Powered Homes/Businesses/Communities

Churches Can Become Energy Efficient too!

Defining Progressive Energy Policies

Renewable Portfolio Standards —States commit to a minimum amount of their energy mix that will come from renewable sources Should be mandatory Should be at least 25% by 2025

Energy Efficiency Standards —States commit to reducing their energy consumption Should be mandatory Should be at least 1% annual reduction of previous year retail

electricity sales.

Net Metering– Utility customers who generate their energy through renewable sources are able to sell excess energy generated back to the grid for the same purchasing price utility companies charge for electricity.

Progressive Energy Policies in Region I

STATE ENERGY EFFICIENCYSTANDARD

RENEWABLE ENERGY

STANDARD

NET METERING

 District of Columbia

NO YES YES

 Maryland YES YES YES

STATE ENERGY EFFICIENCYSTANDARD

RENEWABLE ENERGY

STANDARD

NET METERING

AlaskaNO YES YES

ArizonaYES YES YES

CaliforniaYES YES YES

Hawaii YES YES YES

IdahoNO NO NO

Progressive Energy Policies in Region I cont’d

STATE ENERGY EFFICIENCYSTANDARD

RENEWABLE ENERGY

STANDARD

NET METERING

 District of Columbia

NO YES YES

STATE ENERGY EFFICIENCYSTANDARD

RENEWABLE ENERGY

STANDARD

NET METERING

Nevada NO YES YES

Oregon NO YES YES

Utah NO YES YES

Washington YES YES YES

Taking Action!!

Educating Ourselves

HBCU Leadership in Research

Black Leadership in Just Energy Entrepreneurship

Taking it To the Street to Demand Corporate Social

Responsibility

Curtailing Financing

Local, Cooperative Communities

Local Cooperative Communities

Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain

the heartless.Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Legal Action--MATS Intervention

Engaging with the EPA

Advancing Just Policy

Civic Engagement

Together We CAN!

!! JOIN US !! Start an Environmental and Climate Justice

Committee Conduct a Community Assessment and Develop an

Action Plan Start a Coal Blooded Campaign Start a Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard

Campaign Start an Energy Efficiency Standard Campaign Start a Net Metering Campaign Initiate a Clean Energy or Energy Efficiency

Demonstration Project Develop a Disaster Plan Start an Eco-District in Your Municipality Launch a Youth and College 10,000 Steps Campaign

Our Resources 2010 Climate Justice Toolkit Coal Blooded: Putting Profits Before People—National

Report Coal Blooded Action Toolkit 10,000 Steps Youth and College Toolkit

Coming Soon Just Energy Policies State By State Compendium ECJ Comprehensive Toolkit Black Church ECJ Toolkit Beasts of the Southern Wild Discussion Guide

What Will Your Branch Do?

Thank YouJacqui Patterson

Director, Environmental and Climate Justice Program

443-465-9809

jpatterson@naacpnet.org