Strategy 17: Support movement for "toxic-free" neighborhoods and healthy schools.
Strategy 18: Increase the percentage of grant dollars devoted to advocacy, community organizing, and civic engagement.
Strategy 19: Increase general operating support and multi-year grants .
Strategy 20: Invest in community-university partnerships (CUPs) that advance the new "corporate environmental justice performance scorecard" and related Health Impact Assessment (HIA) tools that assess the potential human health risk of toxic emissions at industrial sites.
Clearly, more emphasis should be on planning for good health rather than managing risks. Since communities of color are on the frontline of environmental assault, we can reduce environmental health threats and racial disparities through defending and extending the right-to-know, linking modeling and monitoring, shifting pollution standards to assess cumulative impacts, and encouraging community, shareholder and consumer activism. Working together with a shared vision, residents in many environmental "sacrifice zones" are hopeful that they can take possession of their rights to a safe, sustainable, and healthy environment and put an end to elevated illnesses and deaths that disproportionately plague residents in low-income and people of color communities.
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