TagFront And Centered(6)
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2025-02-19Guillermo Rogel Front and Centered HB1303 House Appropriations Committee
Guillermo Rogel, representing Front and Centered, testifies before the Washington State House Appropriations Committee on Substitute House Bill 1303 regarding Environmental Justice on February 19, 2025. The hearing was broadcast on TVW, Washington State's public affairs network. -
2024-02-23The CURB Pollution Act: Cumulative Risk Burden Pollution Act Fact Sheet
The CURB (Cumulative Risk Burden) Pollution Act is a proposed Washington State law that would require environmental justice considerations to be factored into pollution permitting decisions, with the goal of protecting communities that have historically faced disproportionate pollution burdens due to redlining and institutional racism. The act would require agencies to deny new permits that add cumulative pollution effects in overburdened communities and increase public participation in the permitting process. It builds on Washington's existing Healthy Environment for All (HEAL) Act by directly applying environmental justice principles to pollution permitting. -
2024-02-23
The CURB Pollution Act: Cumulative Risk Burden Pollution Act Fact Sheet
Front and Centered advocacy fact sheet for the CURB (Cumulative Risk Burden) Pollution Act in Washington State. The act requires consideration of cumulative pollutants affecting health in pollution permitting, specifies protections for disproportionately harmed communities, requires lead agencies to deny permit applications for new facilities adding cumulative pollution effects, and elevates frontline community participation in -
2024-01-012024 Environmental Justice Report: Washington State Attorney General’s Office
The Washington State Attorney General's Office 2024 Environmental Justice Report details efforts to protect communities—particularly low-income and communities of color—from disproportionate environmental harms through the Healthy Environment for All (HEAL) Act. The report covers actions such as lawsuits, community outreach, and policy letters aimed at reducing pollution and toxic exposures across Washington State. Note: This document does not address Sea-Tac Airport noise policy and may not be relevant to that specific topic. -
2023-01-01HEAL progress report: Seeding the culture and building the structures for a Just Transition through Washington’s landmark law on environmental justice
This progress report from Front and Centered evaluates Washington State's HEAL Act, a landmark environmental justice law, assessing how state agencies are implementing requirements such as community engagement plans, environmental health disparities mapping, and funding structures. The report focuses on protecting frontline communities of color from compounding environmental, climate, and economic harms. Note: this document does not address Sea-Tac Airport noise policy and is unlikely to be relevant to that specific topic area. -
2019-09-23Environmental Justice Task Force information
Washington State's Environmental Justice Task Force, convened by the Governor's Interagency Council on Health Disparities, was established to recommend strategies for reducing environmental health disparities across the state, with a final report due to the legislature and Governor by October 31, 2020. The Task Force focuses on improving health outcomes for communities most severely impacted by environmental hazards, including low-income populations and communities of color. Its work includes developing guidance on community engagement, measurable health disparity goals, and model policies prioritizing vulnerable populations.