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Who we are
The Environmental Justice Leadership Forum (EJLF) is a national coalition of over 50 organizations in 22 states who work to ensure that a diverse grassroots perspective is reflected in federal, state, and local environmental programming and policy decisions.
Organizations are based in red, blue, and swing states, including those in Appalachia, the Deep South, Northwest, Midwest, Northeast and Southwest regions. EJLF members represent Black, Latinx, Indigenous and low-income communities in large cities to rural areas. These groups are actively working together to advance key climate justice and environmental policy to ensure the protection and advancement of communities of color and low-income communities throughout the U.S. The EJLF is convened by WE ACT for Environmental Justice.
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The forum was initiated in 2008 in response to the emerging concerns around potential mitigation strategies and regulations that were being presented as options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions which had the potential to amplify the disproportionate environmental burden on frontline communities. On July 29, 2020, the EJLF held its 2020 Summer Convening. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was conducted online.
The convening was brought back together in person in the summer of 2022 and 2023 with groups from all around the country coming together to exchange ideas and advance a national environmental justice agenda.
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