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Environmental Quality Control - Environmental Justice
Welcome to the Environmental Justice Website!
   
Environmental Justice means the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of a person regardless of his race, color, ethnicity, gender, religion, income, or education level with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of a law, regulation, or policy that impacts the person’s environmental health.
   
Questions and/or concerns that directly relate to an environmental justice issue are handled by our Public Participation staff, which is housed within the Environmental Quality Control Office of the Community Liaison.
             
North Charleston Partnership Receives EPA Environmental Justice Award (View Summary)  

DHEC is chairing and staffing the S.C. Environmental Justice Advisory Committee, which was formed by law in 2007. To learn more about the Advisory Committee click here.

           
Staff from the Environmental Quality Control Office strives to enhance our public participation initiative each day.
To learn more about Public Participation, click here.



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Text Box: “If we are conducting meaningful public participation, then we should be engaging and involving all stakeholders in the process, including those from an environmental justice community.” - Nancy Whittle, EQC Community Liaison, DHEC

       
Outstanding Environmental Justice Advocate      
Representative Harold Mitchell (District 31 - Spartanburg County) has long been an advocate for environmental justice in South Carolina and across the nation. He is recognized as a leader due to the collaborative, problem-solving spirit he used to re-develop his community within Spartanburg, SC. In 2002, the United States Environmental Protection Agency awarded him the Citizen’s Excellence in Community Involvement Award. Click here to read more about Rep. Mitchell, ReGenesis, and the Arkwright/Forest Park communities.