Organizers' Collaborative

Energy Justice Network is developing a web-based database and GIS mapping project to track all of the existing, proposed, closed and defeated polluting waste and energy facilities in the U.S. Once set up, this ambitious project will enable people to find out what toxic hazards exist or may soon exist in their communities and will be able to use the site to locate community groups that are fighting these industries. Using this as a tool to build grassroots networks, such as our "No New Coal Plants" network, information will be fed into the system in both centralized and decentralized ways, facilitating the networking that we've found so effective in helping grassroots environmental groups support each other's struggles.