Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (T.E.J.A.S.)

This week, I would like to introduce or reintroduce you to Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (T.E.J.A.S.). Until Justice Data Partners (UJDP) has been honored to work alongside T.E.J.A.S. and their leadership for over a decade. They are based in Houston, TX. I will paste some language for their website so that they can describe themselves. This week we will highlight some of their life-saving work.

T.e.j.a.s is dedicated to providing community members with the tools necessary to create sustainable, environmentally healthy communities by educating individuals on health concerns and implications arising from environmental pollution, empowering individuals with an understanding

of applicable environmental laws and regulations and promoting their enforcement, and offering community building skills and resources for effective community action and greater public participation.​​

Our goal is to promote environmental protection through education, policy development, community awareness, and legal action. Our guiding principle is that everyone, regardless of race or income, is entitled to live in a clean environment.