health, safety, property values, and quality of life even if no accident or disaster occurs. (6) Air and water quality are often especially poor in marginalized communities, and governmental permitting and investment decisions directly contribute to this inequity. (7) Scientific evidence increasingly links poor environmental quality with disabilities and chronic illnesses, including cancer, asthma, neurobehavioral disorders, learning disabilities, and abnormal hormone functioning. (8) Environmental justice exists when public policies successfully prevent or correct unfair disparities in environmental quality, and resultant disparities in public health and quality of life. (9) Environmental justice is possible only if vulnerable groups and marginalized communities can express their needs and concerns, and only then if policymakers listen. (10) The environmental justice movement seeks to address the unjust social, economic, and political marginalization of minority, low-income, rural, and indigenous communities. (11) Environmental justice advocates seek healthy home, work, and recreational environments for all human beings, and healthy habitats for non-human life. (12) Community health depends in part upon factors like adequate transit options, walkable neighborhoods, and other public goods that marginalized communities are often denied. (13) Environmental justice requires responsible and balanced use of land and resources, in a way that does not unfairly burden marginalized communities. (14) Environmental justice can only be achieved and sustained in the context of a greener economy. (15) Greening the economy requires concrete governmental actions, including investments in clean technologies