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Event Report

Environmental Justice and Global Warming Action

Memphis, TN

November 3, 2007

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Rep. Stephen Cohen


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By:Steven Sondheim

Successful Environmental Justice event, Protecting Where We, Live, Work, and Play in Memphis where 150 people discussed ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOR ALL including 12 workshops national energy bill advocacy by Congressman Steve Cohen and keynote speaker Leslie Fields, National Sierra Club Environmental Justice Chair


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US Congressman Steve Cohen advocating passage of the National Energy Bill at the Environmental Justice Conference in Memphis.


By:Steven Sondheim

Steve Cohen, US Representative, Barbara Cooper and Mike Kernell, Tennessee State Representives attended the Environmental Justice Conference in Memphis ]Tennessee with 150 attendees working on national energy issues, blight, air pollution, radioactive waste, health effects of toxins, Urban Growth and inner city neighborhoods, and global warming Actions


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Belinda Clayborn, , a LeMoyne-Owen College student and a community activist in the Douglass community, Steve Cohen, US Representative and Rita Harris, Sierra Club Environmental Justice Coordinator


By:Steven Sondheim

US Congressman Steve Cohen, Tennessee Congress Represenatatives Barbara Cooper and Mike Kernell attend the Environmental Justice Conference in Memphis with 150 citizens advocating the National Energy Bill and looking at issues like urban development, air quality, dealing with toxins and radioactivity, blighted neighborhoods, etc.