“Protecting Urban Environments”
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Learn more about our recent work as a founding member of the Greater New Haven Water Works Coalition, which seeks to address New Haven’s stormwater overflow problem.
[Map of CSO outfalls, pumps and East Shore abatement facility]
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We support the New Haven Healthy City / Healthy Climate Challenge! Visit their website and pledge to reduce your carbon footprint.
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Since the founding of NHEJN, English Station power plant has been a major preoccupation. We continue to monitor activities at English Station to make sure the site contamination is not spread or exacerbated.
[NHEJN press conference outside English Station in 2011]
Read more about our recent work on English Station here.
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NHEJN MISSION STATEMENT
NHEJN seeks to improve our urban environment and protect the quality of life of the New Haven community. Our goals are to:
- Foster awareness of environmental justice issues
- Support and help to create fair and responsible public policy on environmental issues
- Promote activities that safeguard the health of New Haven residents
- Promote remediation measures for our soil, water, and air
- Promote energy conservation and alternative forms of energy
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WHAT WE’VE ACCOMPLISHED
Since 2002, we have:
• Helped pass state-level Sooty Six legislation so that power plants would reduce their use of toxic sulfur oxides.
• Stopped English Station –an extremely dirty power plant in the Fair Haven section of New Haven — from reopening.
• Advocated for inclusion of environmental protections and improvements to the Water Pollution Control Authority’s operations
• Passed a citywide resolution requiring the use of green cleaning products in government buildings
• Helped pass Connecticut’s first-ever Environmental Justice Law
• Won stricter air quality standards and negotiated a successful community benefits agreement for the PSEG Harbor Station power plant expansion.
• Provided the key leadership for establishing the New Haven Green Fund, which will support future efforts to promote environmental justice
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MONTHLY MEETING
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CONTACT INFORMATION
To learn more about the projects we are working on, or to get involved, please email our current Chairman, Chris Schweitzer, at cschweitzer@newhavenleon.org. Also please visit the Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice website to learn about statewide efforts to combat environmental injustice.
