[Halfmanhalfamazing]

BACKGROUND:

USDA Environmental Justice Strategy request for public comments

USDA has recently completed a draft revision of the Department's Environmental Justice Strategy. We value your input very highly and would appreciate receiving your comments and suggestions during the 30-day comment period, open from December 7, 2011 through January 7, 2012.

You can view the draft strategy here:http://www.dm.usda.gov/hmmd/USDADraftEJStrategicPlansigned.pdf. Kindly send your written comments to EJStrategy@osec.usda.gov by January 7, 2012. In addition to comments on the Strategic Plan itself, please identify USDA programs that have been the most beneficial to your community. At USDA, environmental justice refers to meeting the needs of minority populations and low-income populations by reducing disparate environmental burdens, removing barriers to participation in decision-making, and increasing access to environmental benefits that help make all communities safe, vibrant, and healthy places to live and work.

At USDA, we are committed to achieving environmental justice throughout every community in America. We strive to create opportunities to improve the environment and human health in all communities in which we work, while ensuring that environmental burdens do not affect any one community disproportionately. Given that USDA programs touch almost every American every day, the Department is well positioned to help in this effort. To effectively and efficiently meet its goals and deliver results, USDA has developed an Environmental Justice Strategic Plan outlining key priorities and strategies.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Agenda 21 ping lists..........

You guys know anything about this?

[cripplecreek]

Screen cap from the subjects covered by our local land use plan seems to go a bit beyond land use.

[goodnesswins]

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[goodnesswins]

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[Baynative]

The toxic tentacles of UN Agenda 21 are reaching into every branch of our government and our society. From locally grown Climate Action Committees to global Cap and Trade, the proponents of social justice are using every benign sounding project they can think of to take away our naturally given rights.

Even Al Sharpton (who probably can't spell environment) has changed his mantra from "social justice" to "ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE"

The goal is social anarchy.

[Eva]

I have to wonder if the people who wrote this have ever seen an Indian reservation? The reservations in our county are disgusting messes. The government gives them free houses, but it is only a matter of a few years before the houses are almost uninhabitable.

Environmental justice, what a joke!