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Illinois House Passes Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, Nation-Leading Clean Energy Bill that Prioritizes Disadvantaged Communities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Juliana Pino, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, jpino@lvejo.org, 312-344-3143 Illinois House Passes Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, Nation-Leading Clean Energy Bill that Prioritizes Disadvantaged Communities SPRINGFIELD, IL (Sept. 9, 2021) — The Illinois House of Representatives advanced the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA) today that can transform the state’s power […]
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NEW: Water & Health in Little Village Study
Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) and Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) have partnered together to explore the cumulative burden of COVID-19, lack of access to drinking water, and urban flooding, in the Little Village neighborhood, an environmental justice community. LVEJO and CNT are collaborating on a study to better understand the impacts of drinking […]
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Chicagoland Latinx Communities Face Barriers to Water Access
by Brenda Santoyo, LVEJO and Jeremy Orr, NRDC [Original post on NRDC blog here.] Access to clean, safe, affordable water is a human right. And this pandemic has shown us that this human right can be the difference between life and death—especially for already overburdened communities. An inability to keep up with the rising costs of water over […]
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