Join Experienced Environmental Justice Organizations in Your Community and Region
If you are facing elevated cancer rates in your community, consider joining and supporting the efforts of local environmental justice groups. These community groups have deep experience and expertise in working to protect community health.
Some suggested organizations include:
CRCQL (Chester Residents Concerned with Quality Living)
Founded and led by Zulene Mayfield, CRCQL (Chester Residents Concerned with Quality Living) has been leading grassroots community environmental justice work in Southeastern Delaware County work for over thirty years. Learn more about how to join and get involved at:
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOR CHESTER
MHANPH (Marcus Hook Area Neighbors for Public Health)
Marcus Hook Area Neighbors for Public Health is a newer community group that also advocates for, and contributes to, the cause of environmental health for Southeast Delaware County residents. Find them and get involved at
https://www.facebook.com/p/Marcus-Hook-Area-Neighbors-for-Public-Health-100079310298702
The Clean Air Council
The Clean Air Council is Philadelphia’s oldest non-profit, and works to protect Pennsylvanians’ right to a clean environment. They sponsor and run an air monitoring program in SE Delco. Learn more about and join their ongoing projects
Physicians for Social Responsibility – PSRPA
Physicians for Social Responsibility is a national organization with an active, state-wide Pennsylvania chapter. Its health professionals center the social and environmental determinants of health, and understand acts of healing to include supporting our collective health and well-being as a society. Learn more and join to offer your support to their mission at
The Sierra Club – Southeastern Pennsylvania Group
The Sierra Club is a national environmental organization, with a southeastern Pennsylvania chapter that draws its members from Philadelphia, Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks and Chester counties. Their aim is to maintain and improve the natural resources of the area and protect it for generations to come. Learn more and join at
https://www.sierraclub.org/pa-spg
Delaware Riverkeeper Network
The Delaware Riverkeeper Network champions the rights of our communities to a Delaware River and tributary streams that are free-flowing, clean, healthy, safe for drinking and playing, and abundant with a diversity of life. Learn more and join to help protect the Delaware River Watershed, including DRN’s efforts to counter plans for another LNG refinery, expanded liquid natural gas facilities for export overseas and plastics manufacturing, and a massive mid-Atlantic hydrogen hub at
MAD-FACTS (Mothers & Dads-Family Awareness of Cancer Threat Spike)
MAD-FACTS is a group of Pennsylvania residents who are bringing awareness to how oil and gas industries in their communities are harming their families’ health and well-being, including with rare cancers and pediatric cancers. MAD-FACTS is presently leading a number of important cancer prevention and broader public health initiatives, including work to institute and/or maintain 2,500-5,000 feet set-backs for protected structures (like homes, businesses, schools and hospitals) from oil and has wells. Learn more and join their fight at
The Center for Coalfield Justice
The Center for Coalfield Justice works with residents in Washington and Greene Counties to build a healthy future for the places that they call home. Southwestern Pennsylvania presently has an extraordinary array of extractive and heavily polluting industries. The region is home to the largest producing underground coal mine in North America, as well as over three thousand fracked gas drilling and midstream operations. Members of the CCJ work to take power back from these damaging industries and to put an end to the control that they wield over their local economies and environments. To learn more and join their work, visit
https://centerforcoalfieldjustice.org
Damascus Citizens for Sustainability
Protect PA
Food and Water Watch
Environmental Health Project
