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Metropolitan Washington Council of Government’s Environmental Justice Toolkit

Prepared by the Air and Climate Public Advisory Committee of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG), this toolkit provides an overview of environmental justice principles and outlines a series of approaches to better achieve environmental justice goals in the Washington, DC metro area. For each approach, the toolkit lists a number of additional resources that can be used to operationalize the recommendation.

Resource Details

Organization: Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
Date: 11/7/2022
Resource Type: Toolkit
Topic: Air Quality, Climate Adaptation & Resilience, Energy Justice

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