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Agency Civil Rights Office Shuffle Replaces Director With Ex-Interim Head (reprinted with permission from Inside Washington Publishers)

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This article originally appeared in Inside EPA Weekly Report on June 18, 2010. It is reprinted here with permission of the publisher, Inside Washington Publishers. Copyright 2010. No further distribution is permitted. Click here to view article (pdf format): Agency Civil Rights Office Shuffle Replaces Director EPA 06-10

Video: Dvija Michael Bertish Interview with Jake Thomas on the Portland Observer Hour

admin — Thu, 13 May 2010 04:47:29 +0000

Please click on the arrow to begin the video. Dvija Michael Bertish recently sat down with Jake Thomas, Web Editor & News Reporter of the Portland Observer on Portland Observer Hour, and discussed the history of Rosemere Neighborhood Association's landmark environmental justice case as well as our dedicated work for environmental protection and improving the status of environmental justice communities.

New EPA Data On Civil Rights Backlog May Help Reshape Equity Agenda (reprinted with permission from Inside Washington Publishers)

admin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:33:44 +0000
This article originally appeared in Inside EPA Weekly Report on April 9, 2010. It is reprinted here with permission of the publisher, Inside Washington Publishers. Copyright 2010. No further distribution is permitted. Click here to view article (pdf format): Rosemere New EPA Data IEPA 04-10 Click here to view the EPA Spreadsheet (pdf format): Updated [...]

Landmark Pact Could Speed EPA Review Of Stalled Civil Rights Complaints (reprinted with permission from Inside Washington Publishers)

admin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:47:09 +0000
This article originally appeared in Inside EPA Weekly Report on March 26, 2010. It is reprinted here with permission of the publisher, Inside Washington Publishers. Copyright 2010. No further distribution is permitted. Click here to view article (pdf format): Rosemere Landmark Pact IEPA 03-10

Rosemere Settles Landmark Environmental Justice Case Against EPA

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:34:27 +0000
PRESS RELEASE****PRESS RELEASE****PRESS RELEASE ROSEMERE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION SETTLES LANDMARK ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE CASE AGAINST EPA’S OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS Contact: Ralph Bloemers, Crag Law Center Tel. (503) 525-2727 Contact: Dvija Michael Bertish, Rosemere Neighborhood Association, Tel. (360) 281-4747 www.crag.org , www.rosemerena.org (March 22, 2010) Judge Benjamin H. Settle, US District Court of Washington, entered a Stipulated [...]

Personnel Disputes Roil EPA’s Rights Office, Undermining Equity Agenda (reprinted with permission from Inside Washington Publishers)

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:09:34 +0000
This article originally appeared in Inside EPA Weekly Report on February 19, 2010. It is reprinted here with permission of the publisher, Inside Washington Publishers. Copyright 2010. No further distribution is permitted. Click here to view article (pdf format): Personnel Disputes Roil EPA’s Rights Office Undermining Equity Agenda

Jackson Shuffling Of Key EPA Civil Rights Office Staff Sparks Criticism (reprinted with permission from Inside Washington Publishers)

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This article originally appeared in Inside EPA Weekly Report on December 4, 2009. It is reprinted here with permission of the publisher, Inside Washington Publishers. Copyright 2009. No further distribution is permitted. Click here to view article (pdf format): Jackson Shuffling Of Key EPA Civil Rights Office Staff Sparks Criticism

EPA Civil Rights ‘Best Practice’ Guidance Plan Fails To Quell Criticism (reprinted with permission from Inside Washington Publishers)

admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:30:20 +0000
This article originally appeared in Inside EPA Weekly Report on October 23, 2009. It is reprinted here with permission of the publisher, Inside Washington Publishers. Copyright 2009. No further distribution is permitted. Click here to view article (pdf format): EPA Civil Rights ‘Best Practice’ Guidance Plan Fails To Quell Criticism

Jackson Orders Agency to Speed Civil Rights Claims Reviews (reprinted with permission from Inside Washington Publishers)

admin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:27:37 +0000
From Inside Washington Publishers, September 28, 2009. Appears here with permission of the publisher. Click here to view article (pdf format): Jackson Orders Agency to Speed Civil Rights Claims Reviews

Press Release: RNA Wins Landmark Environmental Justice Case Against EPA’s Office of Civil Rights

admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:18:23 +0000
justice FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Chris Winter CRAG Law Center Dvija Michael Bertish Rosemere Neighborhood Association ROSEMERE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION WINS LANDMARK ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE CASE AGAINST EPA’S OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Criticizes EPA for a “Pattern of Delay” in Implementing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act (September 18, 2009) Rosemere Neighborhood Association ("Rosemere") is a non-profit community organization in Clark County, Washington, dedicated to environmental protection and the pursuit of improvements to low-income environmental justice communities. In February 2003, Rosemere first filed a Title VI administrative complaint with EPA's Office of Civil Rights ("OCR") alleging that the City of Vancouver, WA had discriminated in the provision of municipal services in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Rosemere alleged that Vancouver failed to use EPA funds to address fairly long-standing problems in low-income and minority neighborhoods in West Vancouver.