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EPA official ousted while fighting Dow
The Chicago Tribune (5/2)
Following months of internal bickering over Mary Gade's interactions with Dow, the administration forced her to quit Thursday as head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Midwest office.

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General Resources
A Citizen's Guide to Using Environmental Laws to Secure Environmental Justice
Environmental Law Institute
This handbook highlights sections of environmental laws that can be used to support and help advance an individual's or organization's environmental justice goals.

Environmental Defense
A not-for-profit environmental advocacy group with four main goals: (1) Stabilizing the Earth's climate, (2) Safeguarding the world's oceans, (3) Protecting human health, and (4) Defending and restoring biodiversity.

Environmental Justice
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental Justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.

Environmental Justice Database
Michigan State University Extension
Bibliographic entries on issues related to environmental justice.

Grand Calumet Task Force
A community environmental organization which works to improve the land, air and water quality of the Grand Calumet River and the urban ecosystem that surrounds it, and to achieve environmental justice for the people of Northwest Indiana.

Midwest Environmental Advocates
MEA is a legal and technical resource center for community groups across Wisconsin, Minnesota and Upper Michigan who are working for environmental justice. Founded in 2000, one of MEA's first campaigns is to provide legal support for a multicultural coalition of communities who are impacted by high levels of toxins in the waters and fish of the western Great Lakes.

Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC)
The NRDC's purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends.

Office of Environmental Justice
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region 5,
Air and Radiation Division

Created in 1992 to coordinate the agency's efforts in environmental justice.

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