Promote Equality and Environmental Justice
We are extremely privileged to live in a place with access to unlimited clean water, like the Aquetong. Many communities around Pennsylvania, the country, and world do not have this opportunity. Unfortunately, low income communities and/or communities of color are often disproportionately impacted by water contamination than affluent areas.
Across Pennsylvania, the PA DEP defined over 1,000 communities around the state that are environmental justice sites, they do not have extra environmental protections, so environmental hazards can continue to accumulate in these communities. These communities are still impacted from environmental hazards every day.
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