Peoples Port Authority

Green justice zones program - a green justice zone is an innovative new model to protect marginalized communities from corporate polluters and fund long-overdue environmental remediation projects. Green justice zone will enable the community to dismantle pollution-intensive facilities such as petroleum refineries and hazardous waste storage sites in the designated area, protecting residents from the severe health impacts of highly toxic industries. The green justice zone program will also provide funding for environmental remediation projects such as weatherization, building microgrids, replacing lead pipes, and installing air filtration systems in zone residents' homes to be allocated by a participatory process in which zone residents will choose, through a local referendum, which environmental remediation projects to prioritize.