Category 2020s Climate Justice

Just Transition Northwest Indiana (JTNWI, Norman grantee 2022–present) is a grassroots environmental justice organization founded in 2020 by Michigan City, IN, residents concerned about the Northern Indiana Public Service Company’s (NIPSCO) coal ash crisis. NIPSCO had plans to phase out…

RISE St. James (Norman grantee 2019–2026) was founded in 2018 by Sharon Lavigne, a lifelong resident of St. James Parish in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley,” an 85-mile stretch along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans that is home…