SC415-4: Analyze how the major organizations involved in environmental and occupational health use environmental justice to improve population health.<\/p>\n
GEL-7.02: Apply ethical reasoning to ethical issues within the field of environmental health.<\/p>\n
Instructions:<\/p>\n
For several decades, governmental policy makers have passed legislation and created policies that integrate environmental justice into governmental agency rules and regulations to eliminate environmental injustices. While the intention is a step in the right direction, instructions on implementing these laws have been largely ignored.<\/p>\n
Eleven United States governmental agencies signed the Memorandum of Understanding on Environmental Justice and Executive Order 12898.<\/p>\n
PART 1: For the Unit 7 Assignment, read over the Memorandum of Understanding on Environmental Justice and Executive Order 12898<\/a>.<\/p>\n PART 2: Choose one of the federal agencies that signed the MOU on Environmental Justice. Research what the agency has done to comply with the MOU.<\/p>\n