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As part of the 2023 Speaker Series, the Greenwich Sustainability Committee (GSC), in partnership with Waste Free Greenwich, will host “Waste Injustice: Impacts and Solutions,” on Tuesday, October 24 at 1:00-2:30 pm at Second Congregational Church. Panelists will explore the effects of waste management practices and policies in Greenwich and across our state and advocate for solutions to reduce the environmental and fiscal impacts and the health burden on low-income populations and communities of color.
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1:00 Welcome by Janet Stone McGuigan, Co-Chair, Greenwich Sustainability Committee
1:05 Introduction by Julie DesChamps, Co-Chair, GSC’s Waste Reduction Sector and Founder & Chair, Waste Free Greenwich
1:10 Presentations by Courtney Williams, Co-Founder, Westchester Alliance for Sustainable Solutions & Kevin Budris, Advocacy Director, Just Zero
2:10 Q + A Discussion
Dr. Courtney Williams, Co-Founder, Westchester Alliance for Sustainable Solutions
Courtney M. Williams, PhD is a scientist, parent, and activist living in the environmental justice community of Peekskill, NY. She brings over a decade of experience researching cancer and the molecular mechanisms of disease to parse the emerging data on the health and environmental impacts of pollution from energy infrastructure and shale gas development.
Courtney has worked closely with local, state, and Federal officials to educate them on the public health issues surrounding fossil fuel infrastructure, industrial pollution, and climate change. Since 2013 she has been fighting the expansion of the “Algonquin” fracked gas pipeline system under Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant and 400ft from her home. In 2021 Courtney founded Westchester Alliance for Sustainable Solutions (WASS) to close the WIN-Waste trash incinerator in Peekskill and move Westchester County towards zero waste. Courtney lives in Peekskill with her husband and two children less than one mile from the WIN-Waste trash incinerator. She is a cancer researcher at a Westchester-based biopharmaceutical company.
Kevin Budris, Advocacy Director, Just Zero
Kevin Budris is a co-founder and Deputy Director at Just Zero, a non-profit organization that works alongside communities, policy makers, organizers, and others to implement just and equitable solutions to our waste crisis. Prior to Just Zero, Kevin was a Senior Attorney in the Zero Waste Program at Conservation Law Foundation and previously worked at the National Environmental Law Center, where he brought citizen enforcement lawsuits against polluting landfills and incinerators.