Topic: Environmental Justice

The NAACP’s Environmental and Climate Justice Committee seeks to addresses environmental inequities, reduce pollution, advance energy efficiency and clean energy, and ensure disaster-resilient infrastructure.

Appalachian Voices has been the region’s grassroots advocate in campaigns to protect the air, water, land and communities of the Appalachian Mountains

The League of Women Voters WV is a “nonpartisan volunteer organization that promotes political responsibility through informed and active citizen participation in government.”

West Virginia Rivers Coalition, recognized as the state’s flagship environmental policy organization, promotes the overall health of West Virginia’s waters and their downstream benefits.

Since 1989, the West Virginia Environmental Council has promoted environmental protection and policies for a sustainable West Virginia through citizen organizing, citizen education, collaboration among environmental organizations, advocacy, and legislative outreach

West Virginia Citizen Action Group (WVCAG) and its members have engaged in 50 years of action to increase the voice of the average citizen in public affairs through research, education, lobbying, organizing and coalition building around climate, health care and democracy issues