Abstract Environmental Justice communities are being negatively impacted and are experiencing numerous, severe and wide spread health impacts as a result of living and working in close proximity to and down stream of pollution sources. The communities health impacts are frequently caused by a host of different chemicals from a number of different sources and are compounded by the vulnerabilities of the communities socioeconomic status.
Through the use of data available in federal, state and local environmental and health agency files, monitoring data, scientific investigations and a host of other data sources, communities have been able to become educated and empowered on the issues that are impacting their health, their body burdens, and the quality of life in there communities. Using this base of knowledge and integrating the knowledge into their specific community situations, communities have been able to educate governmental agencies, elected officials, industrial representatives and the general public, achieve substantial reductions in toxic exposure, isolate and cleanup pollution sources, improve ambient air and surface water quality, relocate communities out of harms way, implement steps to reduce their body burdens and improve the human health and quality of life for community members.