MISSION
Help Joppa residents reverse decades of environmental racism by building an “environmental protection district” that can serve as a model for other distressed neighborhoods, fighting off new threats, and establishing a Dallas environmental justice policy that stops putting polluters in the same neighborhoods.
PARTICIPANTS
Joppa Freedman's Township Association, Inclusive Communities Project, Paul Quinn College, South Central Civic League, NAACP, Downwinders at Risk, Texas Campaign for the Environment, Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas, Sierra Club/Beyond Coal and others.
AGENDA
Batch Plants
Lane Plating Superfund Site
Blue Star Recycling
Air Monitoring
City Economic Development Policy
Interested in working on systematic solutions to environmental racism in Dallas? Please join us and help win city-wide policy changes. Monthly meetings. All are welcome. To sign up the "Let Joppa Breathe" Alliance mailing list, email downwidersatrisk@gmail.com