Cedar Grove Community Launches Environmental Justice Initiative
According to Eliese Fisher, president of the Cedar Grove Community Association (CGCA), the group is becoming “the force that our community needs.”
For years, the association has provided information and taken action on a variety of issues facing its residents. This year, it’s tackling environmental justice.
In a recent email to area residents, the association shared that the Cedar Grove community is currently facing a number of challenges that are having an immediate and potentially long-term effect on the health, safety and wellbeing of residents.
According to the association, these challenges include warehouses, lack of preparedness for the effects of climate change and the Bishop Road landfill, which has been burning for months.
While climate change has been a hot button topic at the n...