NAACP Region IV Crati Environmental and Climate Justice Presentation

Environmental and Climate Justice Region IV

The Path to Transformation for Our Communities

OVERVIEW

What We’re Up Against

What Are Our Assets

How Do We Eliminate Threats and Optimize Our Strengths

Re-envisioning Community

Our Current Course

Waste and Communities

Where does American’s waste really go?

Waste

Waste Being Dumped in Our Communities

Landfills in Region IV

Colorado: 15 Wyoming: 2 Montana: 5 Iowa: 19 Nebraska: 7 Missouri: 29 Kansas: 14 Minnesota: 12 North Dakota: 3 South Dakota: 2

Transportation of Waste to Landfills

Ex. The San Luis & Rio Grand Railroad had proposed to develop a radioactive, hazardous and toxic waste truck to rail transfer facility in Conjeos County, Colorado within 250 feet of the San Antonio River. Due to local efforts by residents and community organizations the proposal was defeated!

Incinerators

Incinerators

Only one incinerator in this region in Ames, Iowa! Arnold Chantland Recovery Plant – first municipality operated waste to

energy facility in the nation built in 1975 (trash comes from residents in Story County, alone)

Energy Production

Industry and our Children

http://content.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/smokestack/index

Industry and our Children

http://content.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/smokestack/index

Deepwater Horizon Incident

Kansas Oil Refinery— A History of Environmental Injustice

In Feb, 2013, Coffeyville Resources Refining & Marketing was found guilty of various environmental violations due to a 2007 flood and oil spill that discharged 2, 145 barrels of crude oil, fuel and oil water in to the Verdigris River. They were forced to pay :

•$556,244 for violations against the Clean Water Act •$ 1,746,256 for reimbursement of federal response costs associated with cleanup of the River

Refinery was submerged under four to six feet of water due to flood

Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking)

Effects of Fracking

Brainbridge, Ohio: home explosion and contaminated drinking water

Granger Township, Ohio: explosive levels of natural gas in community’s drinking water (federal level of explosivity is 1% and inside one of the

homes tested was an alarming 20%)

Fracking Accidents

Appomattox, Virginia Natural gas pipeline explosion

Regulations on Fracking?

Halliburton Loophole

Nuclear Reactors in the US

Nuclear Waste Facility in Missouri – Callaway Plant

The Callaway plant supplies about 20% of the electricity sold to 1.2 million customers in Missouri.

The plant’s original 40-year license expires in 2024 and last year they formally applied for a 20 year extension.

Failing Coal Plants in Region I

Colorado City Plant

Name

3-mile

Average

Income

State

Income

Percentage

3-mile

P.O.C.

Population

Grade

Commerce City

Cherokee $13,682 56.9% 64.4% F

Denver Arapahoe $21,990 91.4% 41.6% F

Colorado Springs

Martin Drake $20,905 86.9% 26.6% F

Pueblo Comanche $14,584 60.6% 57.7% F

Brush Pawnee $12,964 53.9% 25.9% D

Colorado Springs

Ray D. Nixon $15,845 65.9% 28.9% D

Colorado

City Plant

Name

3-mile

Average

Income

State

Income

Percentage

3-mile

P.O.C.

Population

Grade

Craig Tri-State

Generation & Transmission

$17,785 74.0% 13.6% C-

Boulder Xcel Energy $28,069 116.7% 18.8% C

Nucla Tri-State

Generation & Transmission

$17,099 71.1% 6.1% INC

Hayden Xcel Energy $19,160 79.7% 7.6% INC

Wellington State of Colorado

$25,048 104.2% 10.1% INC

Cherokee Plant Commerce City, CO

Iowa

City Plant

Name

3-mile

Average

Income

State

Income

Percentage

3-Mile

P.O.C.

Population

Grade

Marshalltown Sutherland $14,817 75.3% 24.9% D-

Muscatine Muscatine Plant #1

$17,305 88.0% 18.0% D+

Cedar Rapids Prairie Creek

$19,766 100.5% 13.7% D+

Cedar Rapids

Archer Daniels Midland Cedar Rapids

$19,747 100.4% 7.9% C-

Bettendorf Riverside $22,466 114.2% 17.3% C-

Iowa

City Plant

Name

3-mile

Average

Income

State

Income

Percentage

3-Mile

P.O.C.

Population

Grade

Clinton Milton L Kapp

$16,893 85.9% 6.3% C

Sergeant Bluff

George Neal

$19,286 98.0% 20.5% INC

Council Bluffs

Walter Scott

$22,048 112.1% 9.2% INC

Muscatine Louisa $18,188 92.4% 6.5% INC

Ottumwa Ottumwa $16,627 84.5% 2.5% INC

Iowa

City Plant

Name

3-mile

Average

Income

State

Income

Percentage

3-Mile

P.O.C.

Population

Grade

Burlington Burlington $20,688 105.2% 5.2% INC

Lansing Lansing $18,232 92.7% 1.4% INC

Sutherland Plant – Marshalltown, Iowa

Kansas

City Plant

Name

3-mile

Average

Income

State

Income

Percentage

3-Mile

P.O.C.

Population

Grade

Kansas City Quindaro $15,561 75.9% 69.9% F

Kansas City

Nearman Creek $19,661 95.9% 43.7% F

Lawrence Lawrence $22,383 109.2% 15.8% C-

St. Marys Jeffrey $15,966 77.9% 7.8% INC

La Cygne La Cygne $16,037 78.2% 4.5% INC

Topeka Tecumseh $20,217 98.6% 16.5% INC

Quindaro Plant Kansas City, Kansas

Minnesota

City Plant

Name

3-mile

Average

Income

State

Income

Percentage

3-Mile

P.O.C.

Population

Grade

Burnsville Black Dog $26,854 115.8% 15.6% D-

Fergus Falls

Hoot Lake $19,036 82.1% 3.4% C

Bayport Allen S.

King $24,281 104.7% 6.2% C+

Cohasset Clay

Boswell $18,507 79.8% 3.1% INC

Becker Sherburne

County $22,611 97.5% 2.2% INC

Minnesota

City Plant

Name

3-mile

Average

Income

State

Income

Percentage

3-Mile

P.O.C.

Population

Grade

Silver Bay Silver Bay $17,396 75.0% 3.1% INC

Aurora Syl Laskin $19,015 82.0% 1.0% INC

Schroeder Taconite Harbor

$22,671 97.7% 2.6% INC

Blackdog Plant Burnesville, Minnesota

Missouri

City Plant

Name

3-mile

Average

Income

State

Income

Percentage

3-Mile

P.O.C.

Population

Grade

Kansas City

Hawthorn $14,647 73.5% 32.3% F

Sikeston Sikeston $15,111 75.8% 27.1% D-

St. Louis Meramec $23,368 117.2% 2.7% D

Marston New

Madrid $14,039 70.4% 29.8% D+

Springfield James River

$28,976 145.3% 5.2% INC

Brookline Station

Southwest $20,219 101.4% 5.9% INC

Missouri City Plant

Name

3-mile

Average

Income

State

Income

Percentage

3-Mile

P.O.C.

Population

Grade

Independence Blue

Valley $20,736 104.0% 9.0% INC

Sibley Sibley $17,680 88.7% 4.5% INC

Clinton Montrose $15,515 77.8% 2.3% INC

West Alton Sioux $27,267 136.8% 4.7% INC

Festus Rush Island

$18,392 92.3% 1.6% INC

Asbury Asbury $18,200 91.3% 5.4% INC

Missouri

City Plant

Name

3-mile

Average

Income

State

Income

Percentage

3-Mile

P.O.C.

Population

Grade

Clifton Hill Thomas

Hill $18,006 90.3% 3.3% INC

Labadie Labadie $28,900 145.0% 2.7% INC

Weston Latan $21,955 110.1% 2.9% INC

Hawthorn Plant Kansas City, Missouri

Montana

City Plant

Name

3-mile

Average

Income

State

Income

Percentage

3-Mile

P.O.C.

Population

Grade

Billings J E

Corette Plant

$15,325 89.4% 16.5% D-

Colstrip Colstrip $20,185 117.7% 18.7% INC

J.E. Corette Plant Billings, Montana

Nebraska City Plant

Name

3-mile

Average

Income

State

Income

Percentage

3-Mile

P.O.C.

Population

Grade

Omaha North

Omaha $13,858 70.7% 56.7% F

Fremont Lon Wright $17,828 90.9% 6.7% C+

Nebraska City

Nebraska City

$16,933 86.3% 5.9% INC

Sutherland Gerald

Gentleman $18,474 94.2% 5.4% INC

Grand Island

Platte $26,925 137.3% 5.5% INC

Hallan Sheldon $20,785 106.0% 3.3% INC

North Omaha Plant Omaha, Nebraska

North Dakota

City Plant

Name

3-mile

Average

Income

State

Income

Percentage

3-Mile

P.O.C.

Population

Grade

Mandan R.M.

Heskett $18,909 106.4% 4.3% INC

Beulah Coyote $17,350 97.6% 4.6% INC

Beulah Antelope

Valley $17,421 98.0% 4.3% INC

Underwood Coal

Creek $18,110 101.9% 1.9% INC

Center Milton Young

$17,886 100.7% 4.0% INC

North Dakota

City Plant

Name

3-mile

Average

Income

State

Income

Percentage

3-Mile

P.O.C.

Population

Grade

Stanton Leland Olds

$17,458 98.2% 3.1% INC

Stanton Stanton $17,402 97.9% 3.1% INC

R. M. Heskett Plant Mandan, North Dakota

South Dakota

City Plant

Name

3-mile

Average

Income

State

Income

Percentage

3-Mile

P.O.C.

Population

Grade

Big Stone Big

Stone $16,956 96.5% 2.2% INC

Big Stone Plant Big Stone, South Dakota

Wyoming

City Plant

Name

3-mile

Average

Income

State

Income

Percentage

3-Mile

P.O.C.

Population

Grade

Gillette Wyodak $17,751 92.8% 7.9% INC

Glenrock Dave

Johnston $17,296 90.4% 7.8% INC

Wheatland Laramie

River $16,920 88.4% 7.4% INC

Gillette Neil

Simpson $17,751 92.8% 7.9% INC

Point of Rocks Jim

Bridger $17,961 93.9% 13.9% INC

Wyodak Plant Gillete, Wyoming

Effects of Polluting Waste and Energy Facilities

Effects of Pollution

Climate Change

Climate Change

Impacts---Extreme Weather

Hurricanes Drought Floods

Earthquakes Tropical Cyclones

Landslides WildFires

Heat or Cold Waves and much more….

Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Katrina

Surge in Damaging Tornadoes

Obliteration of Communities and Erosion of Cultures

Who is Recovering/Returning?

Port Gibson—Grand Gulf

Relief, Recovery, Redevelopment

Employment Security

Second Wave

Criminalization

Who is able to respond?

Who’s Making the Decisions?

Who Is Delivering Assistance?

Shifts in Agricultural Yields

Shifts in Agricultural Yields

Food Insecurity in the US

Corner Store Supermarket

Feast and Famine in Urban America

Corner Store Supermarket

Sea Level Rise

Sea Level Rise

Countries Disappearing of the Map?

Profits Over People

Anti-Regulatory Investments

Company

Total Spent on Lobbying in

2010

Southern Company

$13,220,000

Edison International

$13,080,000

American Electric Power $10,313,196

Duke Energy

$4,800,000

Dominion

$2,050,000

First Energy

$1,865,000

Xcel Energy

$1,720,000

DTE Energy

$1,500,000

Fighting Renewable Energy

Southern Company successfully opposed a plan to create a national electricity market in 2004 and has dedicated significant money and effort to fighting the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), which would require utilities to purchase 15% of their power from renewable sources by 2020.

CNN NEWSROOM-Hurricane Issac

MALVEAUX: And Senator, finally, why is it that Plaquemines Parish did not get that support for a levee? LANDRIEU: Because the Corps of Engineers has a formula that they use to determine where they are going to build or reinforce the levees, based on economic impact ….you get less points if there is less of an economic impact……

CEO Compensation for 2010 at Companies Owning the Top EJ Offenders

Company CEO Name CEO Compensation

Edison International Theodore F. Craver Jr. $9,536,038

Dominion Thomas F. Farrell II $16,924,385

DTE Energy Gerald M. Anderson $5,601,383

Duke Energy James E. Rogers $8,815,181

Xcel Energy Richard C. Kelly $9,956,433

Southern Company Thomas A. Fanning $6,019,151

First Energy Anthony J. Alexander $11,627,657

[i] AFL-CIO CEO Pay Database, Accessed November 2011 http://www.aflcio.org/corporatewatch/paywatch/ceou/industry_2011.cfm

Deepening Disparity

The average CEO compensation for these companies in 2010 was $9,782,889 while the average worker in these companies made $33,840.

On average the CEOs at these companies were compensated at 289 times the rate of compensation for the average worker.

African Americans and Energy

$40 Billion

1.1%

.01%

Our Overall Economic Plight

While the national rate of unemployment during February 2012, was 8.3% that rate is nearly double of African Americans at 14.1%.

A report by the Pew Research Center revealed that the wealth divide between whites and people of color hit a record high in 2009, with the median wealth of white households 20 times higher than black households

Another Way?

Achieving 75% waste diversion in 2030 would:

• Create 1.5 million new jobs

• Lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 515 million tons

(~72 coal plants or 50 million cars)

• Significantly reduce pollution impacting human & ecological health

Diverting Waste

$600 million

for 1,500 ton-per-day

incinerator

$8 million for 1,500 ton-

per-day recycling center

Slide courtesy Brenda Platt, ILSR

Recycling

Recology, San Francisco’s primary recycling, composting and waste company, employs more than 1,000 workers who are represented by the Teamsters.

Over 118 new employees have been hired in recent years to sort recyclables and monitor the collection routes in order to meet San Francisco’s aggressive recycling goals.

Diversion from Landfills=JOBS

In Seattle 2009, nearly 100,000 tons of organic waste was diverted from landfills by the city of Seattle’s program. The city of Seattle’s waste diversion efforts not only benefit the environment, but also sustain family-supporting jobs for the more than 1,000 solid waste and recycling drivers and transfer station employees in Seattle and King County who are represented by the Teamsters Union.

California 115,000 jobs in recycling

Illinois 40,000 jobs in recycling

New York 32,200 jobs in recycling

Minnesota 18,000 jobs in reuse

North Carolina 15,000 jobs in recycling

Massachusetts 13,900 jobs in recycling

San Francisco 1,000 union jobs

Promoting Local Ownership

Local ownership programs can create two to three times as many jobs per megawatt produced. And these local jobs keep over three times as much money and wealth in a community compared to big companies.

Promoting Energy Efficiency and Clean Energy

Why Progressive Energy Policies?

ENERGY EFFICIENCY: The less energy we use, the less we are polluting, the less our communities are exposed to pollution, and the less we are advancing climate change, which also disproportionately harms our communities.

CLEAN ENERGY: The more clean energy we use, the less harmful energy we are using saving our community health, property values, and the sustainability of our environment.

Energy Efficiency

Cooperative/Low Fuel Transportation

Wind Energy

Solar Powered Homes/Businesses/Communities

Churches Can Become Energy Efficient too!

Defining Progressive Energy Policies

Renewable Portfolio Standards —States commit to a minimum amount of their energy mix that will come from renewable sources

Should be mandatory

Should be at least 25% by 2025

Energy Efficiency Standards —States commit to reducing their energy consumption

Should be mandatory

Should be at least 1% annual reduction of previous year retail electricity sales.

Net Metering– Utility customers who generate their energy through renewable sources are able to sell excess energy generated back to the grid for the same purchasing price utility companies charge for electricity.

Progressive Energy Policies in Region IV

STATE ENERGY

EFFICIENCY

STANDARD

RENEWABLE

ENERGY

STANDARD

NET

METERING

District of

Columbia

NO YES YES

Maryland

YES YES YES

STATE ENERGY

EFFICIENCY

STANDARD

RENEWABLE

ENERGY

STANDARD

NET

METERING

Colorado YES YES YES

Iowa YES YES YES

Kansas NO YES YES

Minnesota YES YES YES

Missouri NO NO NO

Progressive Energy Policies in Region I cont’d

STATE ENERGY

EFFICIENCY

STANDARD

RENEWABLE

ENERGY

STANDARD

NET

METERING

District of

Columbia

NO YES YES

STATE ENERGY

EFFICIENCY

STANDARD

RENEWABLE

ENERGY

STANDARD

NET

METERING

Montana NO YES YES

Nebraska NO NO YES

North Dakota NO YES YES

South Dakota NO YES NO

Wyoming NO NO YES

Taking Action!!

Educating Ourselves

HBCU Leadership in Research

Black Leadership in Just Energy Entrepreneurship

Taking it To the Street to Demand Corporate Social Responsibility

Curtailing Financing

Local, Cooperative Communities

Local Cooperative Communities

Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain

the heartless. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Legal Action--MATS Intervention

Engaging with the EPA

Advancing Just Policy

Civic Engagement

Together We CAN!

!! JOIN US !!

Start an Environmental and Climate Justice Committee

Conduct a Community Assessment and Develop an Action Plan

Start a Coal Blooded Campaign

Start a Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard Campaign

Start an Energy Efficiency Standard Campaign

Start a Net Metering Campaign

Initiate a Clean Energy or Energy Efficiency Demonstration Project

Develop a Disaster Plan

Start an Eco-District in Your Municipality

Launch a Youth and College 10,000 Steps Campaign

Our Resources

2010 Climate Justice Toolkit

Coal Blooded: Putting Profits Before People—National Report

Coal Blooded Action Toolkit

10,000 Steps Youth and College Toolkit

Coming Soon

Just Energy Policies State By State Compendium

ECJ Comprehensive Toolkit

Black Church ECJ Toolkit

Beasts of the Southern Wild Discussion Guide

What Will Your Branch Do?

Thank You

Jacqui Patterson

Director, Environmental and Climate Justice Program

443-465-9809

jpatterson@naacpnet.org