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Access Now! Web site for an environmental justice handbook and campaign created by the Transportation and Land Use Coalition (TALC). Available in hard copy and over the web. Web site includes links to organizing classes, technical training and other resources. Handbook was published in December 2004. Link to page where you can download handbook as a PDF.

ECOLEX is an information service on environmental law, operated jointly by FAO (the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), IUCN (the World Conservation Union) and UNEP (the United Nations Environmental Programme). Its purpose is to provide the most comprehensive possible global source of information on environmental law.

Moving to Equity: Addressing Inequitable Effects of Transportation Policies on Minorities by Thomas W. Sanchez, Rich Stolz, and Jacinta S. Ma. June 16, 2003. The Civil Rights Center, Harvard University and the Center for Community Change. From Executive Summary: "This report identifies surface transportation policies' inequitable effects. It examines existing research in the area and highlights the critical need for more research and data collection related to the impact of transportation policies on minority and low-income communities. It also makes recommendations to address the racial injustices created by transportation policies." Also available as PDF (585KB).

State of California Governor's Office of Planning and Research's Environmental Justice Survey Summary.(PDF 400KB).Responses from 63 of approximately 130 state agencies, departments, boards and commissions to an April 2004 survey regarding policies, initiatives, staff training and Title VI obligations.

Guidance Under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Council on Environmental Quality, December 1997. A handbook created to guide federal agencies in their compliance with Executive Order 12898 with information helpful to lay readers. http://ceq.eh.doe.gov/nepa/regs/ej/justice.pdf

Justice and the Environment: A Directory of (San Francisco) Bay Area Nonprofits. Links to more than 60 groups whose work includes a strong environmental justice component. Published on the Web by the Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics, an organization of more than 50 faculty and doctoral students from Bay Area institutions. Carries out teaching and research and sponsors activists and policymakers as Residential Fellows.