To Thank the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) for Addressing Gulf Coast Coastal Restoration

Environmental Justice/Rights and Humanitarian Crises
Sign on to a letter addressed to White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), thanking Administration for the decision to pull together an interagency panel to begin to tackle Gulf Coast coastal restoration. CEQ will chair the interagency panel along with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).  Also urging the panel to look to the model of the Gulf Coast Civic Works Act to adopt a mandate to ensure equity and human rights so that every community (regardless of race, income, etc.) can expect adequate protection and help build economic sustainability/resiliency in effected communities to further combat the effects of climate change and coastal erosion. The letter also asks for a meeting with WH CEQ staff during the upcoming Sept. 22-23 events in DC supporting the Gulf Coast Civic Works Act. The letter was drafted by the RFK Memorial Human Rights Center with the input and support of our grassroots and national coalition partners.

Purpose
The purpose of this action is to show broad-based support for the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) new inter-agency panel to look at the Gulf Coast Civic Works Act as a model for coastal restoration and to ask for a meeting when advocates are in DC for a lobby day.