Announcements

Conference Resource materials now available online

Drive time raises health risks

American Imports, Chinese Deaths Series

Pollution: dangerous to joggers

Genes linked to increased asthma risk

Railways' toxic emissions tied to higher cancer risk. National Public Radio

Pollution-cholesterol link to heart disease seen

See News Links for more current news stories related to goods movement

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Community Perspectives: Share your Story

THE Impact Project wants to know your thoughts, see your photographs and listen to your stories about goods movement impacts in your community.  Please send your thoughts, stories or pictures to:

info@THEImpactProject.org

Browse this interactive map of ports and railyards across the U.S. Click on an icon and find documents, community resources, news stories, and photos for each of the ports and railyards. Developed by Ana Fadich and Tamanna Rahman.

View Map of Ports

View Map of Railyards

To add your community to the map or to give feedback, email info@theimpactproject.org

What is THE Impact Project?

The Trade, Health & Environment Impact Project (THE Impact Project) is a collaboration of community and university partners focused on reducing the impacts of trade, ports and goods movement activities on health and community life. The collaborative is funded by The California Endowment.

THE Impact Project partners include:

• Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice (Riverside and San Bernardino)
• Coalition for a Safe Environment (Wilmington and Harbor area)
• East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice (Commerce and East L.A.)
• Long Beach Alliance for Children with Asthma (Long Beach)
• Urban and Environmental Policy Institute based at Occidental College (Los Angeles)
• Community Outreach & Education Program of the Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center (USC/UCLA), based at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine (Los Angeles)

The collaborative uses science-based information to inform public policy decision-making to encourage healthy solutions for communities impacted by ports, rail yards, intermodal facilities, distribution centers, trucking routes and other goods movement expansion activities. One of THE Impact Project’s goals is to ensure that reducing health, environmental and community impacts becomes central to the transportation and goods movement planning and policy process. THE Impact Project also seeks to shift the nature of the debate about ports and freight movement to elevate community voices in the policy arena, while also using the science and policy work of the academic partners to strengthen those voices.

THE Impact Project website will serve as a network for communities and researchers alike to find useful news links, resources, and information about our recent "Moving Forward" Conference.

What is "Goods Movement"?   

“Goods Movement” refers to the transportation of for-sale products from the location of their manufacture or harvest to their final retail destination. Please refer to the Resources section for more information on Goods Movement 101 Trainings. 

Example of Cargo Containers being shipped to the United States from Asia:

News Links:

Current and archived news stories on trade, health and environmental impacts of ports and goods movement.  Includes updates on THE Impact Project's events and activites.

Resources:

Useful resources about the health impacts of trade, ports and goods movement.  Includes key research studies, fact sheets, reports and publications, speaker's kit materials, Conference 2007 Resource Materials, and more.