From: | Susan Gawarecki <loc@icx.net> |
Date: | Fri, 10 Sep 1999 10:14:20 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | ORR-Wide EJ Group Formed |
Posted for Al Brooks: NEWS RELEASE September 10, 1999, The Oak Ridger ORR-Wide EJ Group Formed On Tuesday September 7, the founding committee of Oak Ridge Environmental Justice Committee announced OREJC's formation as an inclusive regional organization to consider matters of environmental justice. The committee defines environmental justice as the lawful, fair and moral components of a community's surroundings including those aspects of the social and cultural conditions that bear on the surroundings of the community. Under this broad definition, ORJEC plans: 1. To objectively focus the attention of the greater Oak Ridge community on the environmental justice and related problems that exist in the neighborhoods near the Oak Ridge Reservation. 2. To provide an inclusive, multi-ethnic forum for the discussion of citizens' concerns in an open and constructive manner; to direct those concerns to the appropriate agencies, and to respond to citizens' concerns. 3. To provide a process including organizational networks by which the considerable talent and expertise in Oak Ridge can be brought to bear on the environmental justice problems of the community. 4. To provide community outreach and information to the citizens of the community through an environmental education program. 5. To provide informed input to the Department of Energy, the State of Tennessee, the City of Oak Ridge, and other agencies or governing bodies on issues of environmental justice and related problems especially in the area of public health. 6. To provide a community-wide interface to the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation's Environmental Justice Steering Committee on issues related to the new TDEC Environmental Justice Strategic Plan. OREJC will hold its first full meeting at 9:00 AM on Tuesday September 21 at the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conversation, 761 Emory Valley Road to consider draft bylaws and project agenda prepared by the founding committee. The founding committee invites all interested citizens of Oak Ridge and surrounding counties to attend the meeting and join in the effort. More information and membership forms can be obtained from A. A. Brooks, 100 Wiltshire Drive, Oak Ridge, TN 37830; Phone 482 1559, E-mail brooks@icx.net or Web Page http://user.icx.net/~brooks/orejc.html. -- "The only thing necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." -- Edmund Burke ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + Alfred A. Brooks, Jr. Phone: 423-482-1559 + + 100 Wiltshire Drive FAX: 423 482 1559 + + Oak Ridge, TN 37830-4505 Call first + + Web Pages: http://user.icx.net/~brooks/ + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -- ================================================== Susan L. Gawarecki, Ph.D., Executive Director Oak Ridge Reservation Local Oversight Committee, Inc. 136 South Illinois Avenue, Suite 208 Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830 Phone (423) 483-1333; Fax (423) 482-6572; E-mail loc@icx.net VISIT OUR UPDATED WEB SITE: http://www.local-oversight.org ================================================== | |
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