New York City Environmental Justice Alliance

New York City Environmental Justice Alliance Through our efforts, member organizations coalesce around specific common issues that threaten the ability for low-income communities of color to thrive.

Founded in 1991, the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance (NYC-EJA) is a non-profit citywide membership network linking grassroots organizations of color in their struggle for environmental justice. NYC-EJA empowers its member organizations to advocate for improved environmental conditions and against inequitable environmental burdens by the coordination of campaigns designed to inform City and State policies. NYC-EJA is led by the community-based organizations that it serves, with its board elected by its member groups, who set policy and guide program development. What distinguishes NYC-EJA is our ability to:

- Create, nurture, and organize a collective voice to mobilize citywide support to resolve environmental justice issues.
- Highlight key environmental justice issues and policies that arise in multiple communities, or impact citywide conditions, requiring innovative and creative problem solving.
- Involve people of color and other stakeholders directly affected by environmental justice issues in leadership roles to resolve them. NYC-EJA, our members and allies have defined environmental/climate justice advocacy in New York, including: the Waterfront Justice Project, (NYC’s first citywide community resiliency campaign) the Sandy Regional Assembly (the only regional grassroots coalition which prepared the Sandy Regional Recovery Plan), the historic 2014 People’s Climate March (the largest climate mobilization in history), NYC’s first “waste equity” law (reduced permitted capacity for waste transfer stations in NYC’s most overburdened communities), Transform Don’t Trash NY (the most significant proposal to overhaul NYC’s commercial waste system in decades), Power NYS Act (the most protective power plant siting law in the U.S., which prevents environmentally over-burdened communities from any net increases in local air pollution from new power plants); Climate Works for All (advocated for the 2019 NYC Climate Mobilization Act, the most ambitious climate action plan by any U.S. city), NY Renews (advocated for the NYS Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act, the most aggressive climate action legislation among the states), congestion pricing for NYC’s central business district (the first by any North American city) and the NYC Climate Justice Agenda.

🚚⚡NY’s e-commerce boom shouldn’t come at the cost of our health. Diesel truck traffic from mega warehouses is choking fr...
10/14/2026

🚚⚡NY’s e-commerce boom shouldn’t come at the cost of our health. Diesel truck traffic from mega warehouses is choking frontline communities.

During the Toxic Warehouse tour, hosted by Last Mile Coalition, ElectrifyNY and Teamsters, we heard directly from Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Assemblymember Marcela Mitaynes, community members, and our coalition partners as they shed light on the effect the warehouse boom is having on frontline communities.

Thank you to Red Hook Initiative for taking us around and showing the impacts of Amazon’s warehouses on the neighborhood.

Last Mile Coalition and Electrify NY are partnering to host a walking tour of toxic mega-warehouses in Red Hook. Labor a...
10/08/2026

Last Mile Coalition and Electrify NY are partnering to host a walking tour of toxic mega-warehouses in Red Hook. Labor and environmental justice advocates, as well as city and state officials, will discuss solutions to environmental justice, community safety, and worker protection issues. Solutions will include the hashtag and the hashtag .

Want to know more? RSVP: https://lnkd.in/e3sh_gfX

Tuesday, October 13th from 10am-12pm
Meeting Location: Red Hook Initiative Farms (560 Columbia Street)
Expected speakers include:
NYS Assemblymember Marcela Mitaynes (AD-51)
Antonio Reynoso, Brooklyn Borough President
Labor and environmental justice advocates
More to be announced

Lifelong Democrat Hon. Gustavo Rivera serves as State Senator for the 33rd Senate District in the Northwest Bronx. Since...
10/07/2026

Lifelong Democrat Hon. Gustavo Rivera serves as State Senator for the 33rd Senate District in the Northwest Bronx. Since getting elected in November of 2010, Senator Rivera campaigned on the promise that he would work hard to represent the interests of his Bronx neighbors in Albany and restore the public’s trust in their elected officials. In accordance with his goals, for the last 16 years, Senator Rivera has been a champion fighter for the Bronx, increasing the minimum wage, bringing record funding to our schools, protecting tenants against landlord abuses, passing paid family leave for families across the state, and as Chair of the Senate Health Committee since 2019, he has advocated for and won policies to make our healthcare system more accessible and affordable for all New Yorkers. NYC-EJA is proud to honor Senator Rivera for his history of environmental advocacy, especially in his role in sponsoring the Extreme Heat Mortality Bill.

Get your gala ticket here: https://nyc-eja.org/35th-anniversary-gala/

10/05/2026

September showed us an important truth... Our gala is only a month away!

Learn about our gala, our work on ISR, and more in this month’s newsletter. Link here: https://conta.cc/4hpgYpw

NYC-EJA is thrilled to honor Assemblywoman Amy R. Paulin at our upcoming gala!Assemblywoman Amy Paulin has served the 88...
09/30/2026

NYC-EJA is thrilled to honor Assemblywoman Amy R. Paulin at our upcoming gala!

Assemblywoman Amy Paulin has served the 88th New York State Assembly District (Scarsdale, Edgemont, Eastchester, Bronxville, Tuckahoe, Pelham, Pelham Manor, and parts of New Rochelle and White Plains) since 2001, and is the current Chair of the Committee on Health. Her diverse legislative agenda includes health care, education, reproductive rights, child welfare, support for families, domestic violence prevention, s*x trafficking elimination, government reform, sustainability, animal welfare, and gun control. Recently, Assemblywoman Paulin championed the Heat-Related Mortality Report Bill, a key piece of legislation to monitor and ultimately reduce extreme-heat related deaths across the state of New York.

NYC-EJA is thrilled to honor Bronx River Alliance at our upcoming gala!The Bronx River Alliance serves as a coordinated ...
09/22/2026

NYC-EJA is thrilled to honor Bronx River Alliance at our upcoming gala!

The Bronx River Alliance serves as a coordinated voice for the river and works in harmonious partnership to protect, improve and restore the Bronx River corridor so that it can be a healthy ecological, recreational, educational and economic resource for the communities through which the river flows.

Learn more about their work on issues, such as fighting the expansion of the Cross Bronx Expressway, at our gala. Tickets here: https://nyc-eja.org/35th-anniversary-gala/

More vegetation -> less heat Recent data show that NYC overall has seen increases in vegetation cover, which translates ...
09/22/2026

More vegetation -> less heat

Recent data show that NYC overall has seen increases in vegetation cover, which translates to more areas within the city having "enough" vegetation to start combating a critical aspect of the urban heat island effect (and its major impact on public health).

But not all neighborhoods, or the landscapes within them, are equitably green.

Read Just Nature NYC’s analysis on the city’s vegetation here: https://medium.com/gage-nyc/nyc-is-gaining-vegetation-but-is-it-increasing-equitably-db7d2dcdbfa2

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