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Join us to help develop a plan to address health impacts from air pollution in Sacrifice Zones. To address this issue of collective or cumulative air toxic impacts we would like your voice and feedback on a proposal to reduce air toxins and provide health related services to communities living in Sacrifice Zones. We are in review of several policy ideas. We need community voices to explore what's useful, what needs to be thrown out and what needs to be added, in a federal state and local policy to reduce or eliminate public health risks from air pollution.

This website is one of many avenues with several community conversations being held across the nation to obtain real fence-line community voices in a policy.

Build Healthy Communities

A Vision for clean neighborhoods from the ground up!

Air pollution from factories, chemical plants, incinerators, coal fired power plants, and more are harming people’s health and property values. Today’s regulations are inadequate to protect public health because they are based upon regulating chemical-by-chemical and pipe-by-pipe releases.

We know that where there are industrial releases of toxic chemicals into the air, there are families that are sick. This is especially true where there are clusters of industries. Asthma, respiratory disease, reproductive problems and cancers are widespread in polluted communities. Furthermore, families are trapped because no one wants to buy their homes due to air pollution.

Join together and let’s define a new health protective policy together.

The goals of this initiative are:

Provide a comprehensive protective public health policy around air pollution based on public health risks (rather than industry or chemical standards).
Allow communities a pathway to acquire the public health protection they deserve.
Increase transparency about how exposures in polluted communities are regulated.
Provide concrete ways to access healthcare.
Provide protection from negative external impacts of industry to all people, regardless of race, socio-economic status or geographic location.

We need your voice to define the goals and the plan as we move forward in 2020 to define a protective public health policy.