Category 2000s Environmental Justice

Asian Pacific Environmental Network wins first-ever multilingual emergency warning system.

The Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN, Norman grantee 1999–2004) was created in 1993 to organize low-income Asian immigrant and refugee communities in the San Francisco Bay Area who were facing some of the most hazardous environmental conditions in the country.…

Kentuckians for the Commonwealth draws on decades of organizing to protect Pine Mountain.

Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (KFTC, Norman grantee 1993–2002) is a membership-based grassroots organization with deep roots in eastern Kentucky’s coal fields. Norman supported its predecessor organization, the Kentucky Fair Tax Coalition, in the early 1980s, which at the time focused…