[CPEO-BIF] Connaughton to address EJ conference

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

HOWARD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
March 29 - 31, 2007


James Connaughton, Chairman, President's Council on Environmental 
Quality to Address Environmental Justice Conference


Washington, DC 
         March 2, 2007

    Contact: John Rosenthall
Conference Coordinator
jrosenthall@msn.com

James Connaughton, Chairman, President's Council on Environmental 
Quality to Address Environmental Justice Conference

James L. Connaughton, Chairman of the President's Council on 
Environmental Quality (CEQ), will speak at the State of Environmental 
Justice in America 2007 Conference on March 29, 2007 hosted by the 
Howard University School of Law. Environmental justice is the equal 
treatment all Americans with respect to environmental issues.  This 
conference will bring together individuals interested in environmental 
justice from diverse groups at this noteworthy juncture in the history 
of environmental justice, to consider means to achieve environmental 
protection equality. Participants from government, communities, 
academia, faith-based organizations, business and industry and others 
will work through a process of dialogue and learning from each other, to:
* Identify significant EJ success stories, strategies, and lessons 
learned, and how to replicate them.
* Identify potential collaborations that can produce additional 
strategies and success stories.
* Identify key dates and events in the history of environmental justice 
activities.
* Identify emerging issues in environmental justice.

Expected outcomes:

* Rigorous analysis and discussion of environmental justice issues from 
diverse points of view.
* Better understanding of EJ successes and how to replicate them on the 
part of conference participants and other audiences (readers of 
conference related materials);
* Stronger commitment to EJ from key groups, agencies, business and 
industry, academic institutions and other entities.
* A comprehensive Conference Report including papers presented by 
conference panelists and others.

Online Conference Registration is available until March 20, 2007 at 
www.ejconference2007.org. The Registration fee is $150.00 until March 
20, 2007 and $200.00 thereafter. For additional information, contact 
John Rosenthall, Conference Coordinator at ejinamerica2007@yahoo.com, or 
703-624-2257.
The CEQ was created in 1969 to advise the President on environmental 
quality. Chairman Connaughton is the senior environmental advisor to 
President Bush and coordinates the administration's air quality and 
climate change policies. He was appointed by President Bush on June 18, 
2001 to serve as the Chairman of the CEQ, and was unanimously confirmed 
by the Senate.

Conference Brought to You by:

* National Small Town Alliance
* Howard University School of Law
* U.S. Department of Energy
* U.S. Department of Agriculture

Principal Sponsor for Scholarships:

* WM Waste Management

Sponsors:

* U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
* Beveridge and Diamond, P.C.
* American Bar Association, Section of Individual Rights and
Responsibilities
* National Academy of Public Administration
* African American Environmentalist Association
* Holland and Knight LLP

Endorsers:

* U.S. Department of Interior
* National Center for Environmental Health of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
* Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry


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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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