Who’s funding ads supporting NV Energy’s daily demand charge? A group backed by NV Energy.
Nevadans for Reliable, Renewable, Affordable Energy resurfaces nearly a decade after a campaign to help the utility get support for a controversial plan.
Fighting to protect people and the planet
from the dangers of the climate crisis.
At a time when climate scientists tell us we have less than a decade to take action to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we recognize the uneven distribution of harm on frontline communities, vulnerable populations, and future generations.
As a coalition dedicated to advancing environmental justice, we focus our organizing and outreach on communities of color and low-income communities who are both most likely to live closest to, and are disproportionately impacted by, pollution and other environmental burdens.
NEJC is a campaign of Make the Road Nevada.
Building upon the history of environmental justice
The environmental justice movement of the United States has deep roots in both the civil rights and labor movements. This alignment of ideas and actions seeks to address the disproportionate environmental burdens faced by marginalized communities.
As Dr. Robert Bullard, who is known as the “Father of the Environmental Justice Movement”, articulated in July 1999, “environmental justice incorporates the idea that we are just as much concerned about wetlands, birds and wilderness areas, but we’re also concerned with urban habitats, where people live in cities, about reservations, about things that are happening along the US-Mexican border, about children that are being poisoned by lead in housing and kids playing outside in contaminated playgrounds.” His definition underscores the intersection of social, economic, and environmental struggles.
Environmental racism is the systemic placement of polluting industries, toxic infrastructure, and environmental hazards in communities of color – paired with disinvestment, political neglect, and limited access to clean air, water, and land.
Together, NEJC is working to prioritize justice in the fight to protect our state’s natural resources through a social and racial equity lens, to ensure a just transition away from extractive industries, and to liberate frontline communities from environmental hardships.
Current Work
We are fighting for a better future that centers the wellbeing of communities and the planet. Regardless of our income or immigration status, we all deserve to live with clean air and water, affordable utility rates, and a safe, dignified place to call home.
Our coalition focuses our advocacy and organizing on extreme heat, water, transportation, and housing- specifically ensuring all Nevadans have access to clean, affordable, and reliable energy to power our homes.
Our contact
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Extreme Heat
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Water
The Nevada Environmental Justice Coalition is a statewide coalition of organizations fighting to ensure equity, justice, and sustainability are brought into all levels of government decision-making in the face of climate change.
NEJC is a campaign of Make the Road Nevada.
Meet Our Members
Learn more about the organizations that make up the NEJC General Membership on our About Page.
Press Releases & In the News
These Las Vegas neighborhoods bear the brunt of extreme heat waves. Here’s why
Experts say there's no silver bullet to prevent heat deaths in Southern Nevada. But academic research and lived experience provide clues as to what's happening on the ground.
