Track I: Goods Movement
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Session I (Tuesday, January 26, 12:00 noon – 12:50 pm)
Critical Elements of Goods Movement Policy Recommendations:
Community and Tribal Facilitation Strategy
Session Overview: This session explores how a “Community/Tribal Facilitated Strategy” empowers impacted areas by addressing issues of funding, support, training, and implementation timetable.
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Organization |
Topic Area |
Elizabeth Yeampierre |
UPROSE, Inc. (Brooklyn, NY) NEJAC Acting Chair |
Moderator, Q&A
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Omega Wilson |
West End Revitalization Association (Mebane, NC) NEJAC Member |
Viewpoint as a “Community Perspective” Member of NEJAC Goods Movement Workgroup.
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Margaret Gordon |
Community Member of American Association of Port Authorities (Oakland, CA)
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Viewpoint as a “Community Input” Member of the NEJAC Goods Movement Workgroup. |
Gay MacGregor |
EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality (DC)
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Perspective on NEJAC Goods Movement Policy Recommendations. |
Senior Official (invited) |
US Department of Transportation (Washington DC)
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Session II (Tuesday, January 26, 1:00 pm – 1:50 pm)
Community Mission: Beyond Goods Movement Policy Recommendations
Session Overview: Where is the EJ “community voice” in prioritizing strategies for the survival of impacted communities and tribal areas? Are we thinking out of the box?
Panelist |
Organization |
Topic Area |
Jesse Marquez |
Coalition For A Safe Environment (Wilmington, CA) |
Moderator, Q&A |
Albertha Hasten |
Louisiana Environmental Justice Community Organizations Coalition (White Castle, LA) |
Local View of Why Consider Relocation Assistance - Options when there is little reduction of air pollution and related water and soil contamination. |
Margaret Gordon |
Community Member of American Association of Port Authorities (Oakland, CA) |
American Association of Port Authorities Involvement: How To? Community and tribal involvement in port activities, planning, and expansion in EJ communities. |
Dr. Sacoby Wilson |
University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC) |
Impacts on EJ Families - Damage to community and tribal infrastructure, housing, work, play, and public health. |
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Session III (Tuesday, January 26, 2:00 pm – 2:50 pm)
Community Mission: Building Community and Tribal Capacity
Session Overview: Small Groups will produce a priority/action list of ideas and strategies to advance further capacity building of community/tribal voices. There will be five concurrent 30-minute small group breakout sessions.
Introduction to Small Group Breakout Sessions: Omega Wilson, West End Revitalization Association (Mebane, NC)
Panelist |
Organization |
Small Group Breakout Session |
Herbert Fraser-Rahim |
Low-Country Alliance for Mode Communities (North Charleston, SC)
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Small Group 1: How-To Get Input on Port Expansion and Operation - Discussion of challenges and strategies for influencing decisions on port expansion/operation, related manufacturing, storage, transport, ports transfer sites, distribution/sales, end use incineration and recycling.
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Hilton Kelly |
Community In-Power and Development Association (Port Arthur, TX) and NEJAC Member |
Omega Wilson |
West End Revitalization Association (Mebane, NC) and NEJAC Member
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Small Group 2: How-To Build Capacity for EJ Communities/Tribal Areas, & Regional EPA Offices - Topics include community/tribal training of EPA officials to more effectively address goods movement issues across cultural barriers and more effective access/use of funding and technical support by local community and tribal organizations. |
Richard Grow |
EPA Region 9 (San Francisco, CA) |
Devon Hall and Dothula Hall |
Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help (Duplin County, NC)
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Small Group 3: How-To Identify Links in Goods Movement Supply Chain - Including Mining Raw Product, Manufacturing, Warehousing, Transportation (air, highway, marine, rail), Ports (air, highway, marine, rail), Public Distribution (box stores, malls, grocery), End Use (Recycling, Incineration, Landfill). |
Angelo Logan |
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice (City of Commerce, CA) |
Angel McCormack |
EPA Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards (RTP, NC)
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Small Group 4: How-To Include Alternative Approaches to Monitoring and Action Plans - Examples include long-term monitors on-site of impacted EJ communities/tribal areas, relocation assistance when pollution cannot be resolved, ways to challenge Environmental Impacted Statements (EIS), tribal tools, low/no cost shareware & GIS tools, and alternatives to monitoring. |
Jesse Marquez |
Coalition For A Safe Environment (Wilmington, CA) |
Milton Bluehouse, Jr. |
Tribal Liaison for New Mexico Environment Department (Santa Fe, NM)
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Small Group 5: How-To Access/Input State/Local and Tribal Goods Movement Actions - Perspectives on effective community and tribal input into government decisions that impact goods movement (land use/zoning, local/county/state planning boards, and environmental impact statements). |
Beryl Thurman |
North Shore Waterfront Conservancy (Staten Island, NY)
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Ayanna King |
Formerly of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (Harrisburg, PA)
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Small groups will come together for a review of the Goods Movement priority lists, Q & A, and evaluation of the session: facilitated by Omega Wilson, West End Revitalization Association (Mebane, NC)
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Session IV (Wednesday, January 27, 8:00 am – 9:30 am)
Access and Evaluate Community Capacity and EPA Support of Community and Tribal Areas
Session Overview: What community representatives, university research partners, and others see as “principles of empowerment” for EJ and tribal communities that are impacted by Goods Movement.
Presenter |
Organization |
Topic Area |
Herbert Fraser-Rahim |
Lowcountry Alliance for Model Communities (North Charleston, SC) |
Moderator, Q&A |
Nick Weiner |
ChangeToWin.org (Washington DC) |
Truckers’ Issues - Retrofits and Unions - Double impacts as goods movement labor force and as community/tribal residents in impacted EJ areas. |
Daria Neal |
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Washington DC) |
Legal Strategies Beyond Litigation - Community/Tribal use of legal alternatives, strategies, and options beyond the Clean Air Act. |
Omega Wilson |
West End Revitalization Association (Mebane, NC) and NEJAC Member |
“Community Peoples’ Table” Paradigm Poster(s) - Goods Movement's Community Facilitated Strategy and the Goods Movement Policy Recommendations. |
Dr. Sacoby Wilson |
University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC) |
Community-Owned and Managed Research (COMR) Model - Promotion of Equity in Funding and Parity in Management. |
Omega Wilson |
WERA/USC Community-University Partnership |
Completion of Survey/Questionnaire - Assessment and Evaluation of Operating Indicators of Community/Tribal Facilitated Strategy. |
Goods Movement Track Evaluations - Omega Wilson, West End Revitalization Association (Mebane, NC)
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