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State Senate Passes Environmental Justice Bill

BOSTON-The environmental legislation passes the Senate here. If the bill makes it through the house, it would give the state's Executive Office of Environmental Affairs the power to prevent development in towns with the environmental justice designation.

By Naomi Grossman | Updated on February 19, 2002

BOSTON-The Environmental Justice bill has passed the Senate here and is on its way to the House. The legislation would enable the state’s Executive Office of Environmental Affairs to prevent development in towns with the Environmental Justice designation.

According to Doug Pizzi, spokesperson for the state’s environmental secretary Robert Durand, the intent of the bill is to prevent “overburdened communities” from seeing developments go up that are legal but “create headaches for neighbors.” Often, notes Pizzi, these are minority communities.

But David Begelfer, head of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties tells GlobeSt.com that his organization is opposed to this bill. He notes that the legislation will effect all development in the state, especially the brownfields in the urban areas. “It will make it difficult to develop in those areas where it is hard to attract development,” he points out.

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