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 Litigation When, How and Why GreenFaith Participates in Litigation Sometimes environmental health threats are not addressed adequately or swiftly enough by education, advocacy, outreach or negotiation. In these cases, litigation may be the best way to make needed changes happen. Twice over the past few years, GreenFaith has chosen after one of its environmental health and justice tours to join environmental litigation addressing conditions in the places toured. Such participation has been based on the following criteria:
GreenFaith has been fortunate to work with outstanding partners in the legal actions in which we have been involved: the Natural Resources Defense Council and Rutgers Environmental Law Clinic for the Newark Bay Lawsuit, and the Rutgers Environmental Law Clinic for action regarding air quality in Paterson. We have also partnered with other community-based groups in each of these suits, such as the New York/New Jersey Baykeeper, the Sierra Club, and the Elmwood Park Environmental Group. Because of resource constraints, GreenFaith does not initiate lawsuits on our own. We remain open, however, to further involvement in environmental justice-related legal action that meet the criteria cited above. 
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"Growing up in the Ironbound neighborhood
in Newark , I experienced firsthand the impacts of environmental
injustice. Although I felt a great sense of pride for my
hardworking, diverse community I could never shake the deep
sense of resentment about the degraded conditions we lived
in – the abandoned sites, foul odors, lack of greenspace..." |
