Indiana State Conference of the NAACP Environmental Climate Justice Program

The Indiana NAACP Environmental Climate Justice Program provides popular education that supports the existing power of community utilizing collective systems thinking, to obtain equitable and just systems change.

Website:  www.facebook.com/Indiananaacpecj

Contact:  Denise Abdul-Rahman, Environmental Climate Justice Chair

Phone number: (317) 331-0815

Email: darahman17@gmail.com

Connect With Indiana NAACP

The state of Indiana has blocked our efforts to own and operate solar, as well as be energy efficient. Please Join us in calling for Energy Democracy.

LEARN MORE

Mission

  • Environmental injustices, including climate change, have a disproportionate impact on communities of color and low income communities in the US and around the world.Our work is implemented within the context of human and civil rights issue, advocating for three objectives, Equitably Reduce Harmful Emissions, Particularly Greenhouse Gases, Advance Energy Efficiency and Equitable Energy, and Strengthen Community Resistance and Livability.

Why Energy Democracy?

  • The need to change our relationship with energy
  • Our right to determine what, when and how energy is to be used
  • Our right to generate equitable renewable energy
  • Our right to a Just Transition from the Middle passage, to Jim and James Crow

Key Strategy

Our work is Instrumental in amplifying, and starkly lifting the Environmental Justice narrative of Indiana. By focusing on collective systemic change, control our narrative, and keep strategies close, we’ve:

  • Opened opportunity for the inclusion of community and MBE’s relating to Resiliency planning, energy decisions, environmental hazard and more
  • Creates academia opportunities for student research that does not exist in Indiana and beyond
  • Protect Health
  • Ramping Education Green Economic Job training Opportunity
  • Equitable Location of energy development
  • Equitable reduction of CO2 and it’s Co-pollutants within Integrated Resource Planning
  • Youth empowerment and adult empowerment via Citizen Science
  • Federal, State and Local Legislative Impact
  • Impacts within Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, Office of Utility Consumer Counseling
  • Climate, water, air, incineration, food access, brownfields, energy, housing, economics, criminal justice, schools, transportation equity, recycling equity and much more.

Accomplishments

Indiana State Conference of the NAACP Environmental Climate Justice Program came together and with the activism and narratives were able to support the retirement the State Line Plant in Hammond, Indiana in 2012.

Since that time, we’ve continued to be active in our journey to Energy Justice and Democracy: We organized over 85 attendees across the Midwest to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region V via the Our Power Plan. We organized the Just Energy Campaign, and called for a retirement of a Coal fired Power Plant by 2016, and won. On February 2016, Indianapolis Power Light stopped burning coal. The advocacy of the Just Energy Campaign was also instrumental and crucial in the defeat of House Bill 1320, a bill that sought to charge fees to distribute energy on the grid in Indiana.

This victory rose to national coverage with LA Times: Minority groups back energy companies in fight against solar power.

Featured Photos

Hosted by Indiana State Conference of the NAACP Environmental Climate Justice Program

[MEC id=”2698″]