2011 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE CONFERENCE:
One Community - One Environment


Detroit, Michigan - *August 23-26, 2011

(*August 23 is an Optional Training Day)

Optional Training Day Agenda

Printable Detailed Agenda (.pdf)

Session I: (Tuesday, August 23, 9:00am - 4:30pm)

How to Create and Sustain an Effective Workforce Development Program

Speaker

Organization

Topic Area

Donele Wilkins

Greendoor Initiative

Topics Covered:
Design Implementation;
Curriculum;
Fund Development;
Job Readiness;
Placement & Leveraging; and
Ideal Collaborations

Lula Odom ICWUC
Dr. Ebony Turner Dillard Deep South Center fro Environmental Justice
Robert Shimkoski Detroit Workforce Development Department , a Michigan Works! Agency

 

Session II: (Tuesday, August 23, 9:00am - 4:30pm)

Overview of the Clean Air Act (CAA)

Speaker

Organization

Topic Area

Laura McKelvey
US EPA

Clean Air Act Overview/Update

NAAQS, Implementation Plans and Public Participation
CAA Permits - New Source Review and Title V
Richard Moore SW Network for Environmental & Economic Justice and Los Jardines  
Donnette Sturdivant US EPA, Region 4 Clean Air Act 101 Air Toxics
Erika Wilson US EPA Climate Change, Stratospheric Ozone, and the Clean Air Act
Title IV of the Clean Air Act: The Acid Rain Program
Gay MacGregor US EPA Reducing Mobile Sources Emissions Under the Clean Air Act

 

Session III: (Tuesday, August 23, 9:00am - 12:00noon)

Citizen Participation in the Title V Air Permitting Process

Speaker

Organization

Topic Area

Verena Owen
Sierra Club

Introductions and Overview

Genevieve Damico US EPA, Region 5 Review of Public Participation Opportunities
Verena Owen
Sierra Club
Preparing for Permit Review
Genevieve Damico US EPA, Region 5 Strategies for Permit Review

 

Session III: (Tuesday, August 23, 1:30pm - 4:30pm)

Speaker

Organization

Topic Area

Genevieve Damico US EPA, Region 5

How to Target Your Review

Verena Owen
Sierra Club
Submitting Effective Comments on a Draft Title V Permit
Summary

 

Session IV: (Tuesday, August 23, 9:00am - 12 noon)

Grant Writing

Speaker

Organization

Topic Area

Kim Foreman Environmental Health Watch, Cleveland

Grant Writing 101

Federal Grants

Margaret Millard US EPA, Region 5
Marva King OAR/CARE National Program

Roundtable with Foundations

Sara Pesek

Environmental Finance Center, University of Syracuse

Open Forum for Q & A

Scot Spencer Annie E. Casey Foundation
Felice Stadler National Wildlife Federation

 

Session IV: (Tuesday, August 23, 1:30pm - 4:30pm)

Speaker

Organization

Topic Area

Chip Hughes

NIEHS, WETP

Overview of NIEHS Funding Opportunities

Sheila Lewis and Marva King

US EPA, OEJ/OAR

Federal Grants Management 101

TBD   Overview of EPA Grants Tutorial

 

Session V: (Tuesday, August 23, 9:00am - 12:00noon)

Advocacy Strategies and Tools for Securing Environmental Justice

Speaker

Organization

Topic Area

Steve Fischbach
Rhode Island Legal Services

Welcome and Overview of Training

Handout:

Eileen Gauna University of New Mexico Law School Title VI Basics
Marc Brenman
The City Project of LA
Tom Stephens Detroit-Based Environmental Justice Attorney
Monique Harden and Nathalie Walker Advocates for Environmental Human Rights, Human Rights Norms Basics
Terence Courtney Atlanta Public Sector Alliance

 

Session V: (Tuesday, August 23, 1:30pm - 4:30pm)

Speaker

Organization

Topic Area

Simone Sagovac
SW Detroit Environmental Vision
Community Benefits Agreements
Vernice Miller-Travis
Miller-Travis & Associates
Performance Partnership Agreements
Steve Fischbach
Rhode Island Legal Services
State EJ Laws and Policies
TBD
  
Moderated Discussion: Grassroots Activists Perspectives on Tools and Strategies

 

Session VI: (Tuesday, August 23, 9:00am - 12 noon)

Organizing for Clean & Affordable Water: A Resident's Training About the People's Water Board Coalition and Home Water Audits

Speaker

Organization

Topic Area

Marian Kramer and Gwen Gaines

Michigan Welfare Rights Organization

Topics Covered:
How to Conduct Home Water Audits;
The Connection Between Water Affordability and Detroit's Aging Wastewater Infrastructure;
How to Check and Fix Leaks and Use Less Water in the Home and Outside the Home (i.e., rain barrels and rain gardens); and
Show Case Some of the Work of the People's Water Board Coalition in Detroit
Erma Leaphart Sierra Club
Melissa Damashke Great Lakes Program Organizing
TBD Sierra Club
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