Resolution Number: 2000-D005
Title: Oppose Environmental Racism
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred
Final Text:

Resolved, That the 73rd General Convention of the Episcopal Church call on those present at this Convention to seek every opportunity to oppose environmental racism; and be it further

Resolved, That the Washington office track legislation seeking to eliminate the practice of locating polluting industries disproportionately near neighborhoods inhabited by people of color or the poor; and be it further

Resolved, That the Washington office monitor and issue policy alerts regarding the practice of mountain top removal and valley fill mining and other large scale mining operations that threaten the ecology and low income communities; and be it further

Resolved, That the Committee on Social Responsibilities in Investments review the environmental racism issue.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Denver, 2000 (New York: General Convention, 2001), p. 677f.

Legislative History

Author:
Originating House: House of Bishops
Originating Committee: Committee on Social and Urban Affairs

House of Bishops

Original Text of Resolution:

(D005)

Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That the 73rd General Convention of the Episcopal Church call on those present at this Convention to seek every opportunity to oppose environmental racism; and be it further

Resolved, That the Washington office track legislation seeking to eliminate the practice of locating polluting industries disproportionately near neighborhoods inhabited by people of color or the poor; and be it further

Resolved, That the Washington office monitor and issue policy alerts regarding the practice of mountain top removal and valley fill mining and other large scale mining operations that threaten the ecology and low income communities; and be it further

Resolved, That the Committee on Social Responsibilities in Investments review the environmental racism issue.

Motion carried

Resolution adopted

(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #256)

House of Deputies

The House of Deputies Committee on Social and Urban Affairs presented its Report #35 on HB Message #256 on Resolution D005 (Environmental Racism) and moved concurrence.

The House concurred

(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #276)

Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, July 14.

Abstract:   The 73rd General Convention calls on the Church to oppose environmental racism and directs the Washington Office to monitor legislation on industries that threaten communities inhabited by people of color or the poor.