These communities are often hardest hit by environmental hazards, including industrial brownfields, air, soil and water contamination from nearby industries and lack of environmental infrastructure.

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Headed by Barack Obama, the nation’s first black President, who appointed Lisa Jackson as the first African-American ever to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Obama administration is offering funding and support to these communities to help solve their environmental problems, create jobs and train workers to fill them.

Members of President Obama’s Cabinet and the community engagement campaign Green the Block met in Washington August 4 to discuss ways to ensure that opportunities from the new green economy are available to a broad cross-section of people.

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