About
FWECC: A coalition of community organizations that was founded by the Stop six Echo Heights Environmental Coalition, Northside Air and NAACP. This organization includes groups from Echo Heights, Stop Six, Northside AIr, Downwinders at Riks, and the Greater Fort Worth Sierra Club, advocating for clean air, water, and safe, healthy neighborhoods for all residents. This is accomplished by fighting against environmental injustice, specifically targeting industrial zoning and pollution that disproportionately impacts communities of color and lower-income areas in North and East Fort Worth.
Echo Heights – Comprehensive Land Use Plan Adopted in 2022: The future land use plan for Echo Heights designates the commercial area adjacent to the neighborhood as an Industrial Growth Center (dark blue).
Southeast Sector Future Land Use
Northside: Northside Fort Worth Air has been beating the drums about the chemical smells in the area.They have begun monitoring air quality. Building a network that includes the Westside and Southeast Fort Worth; one can view real time data about air quality and particulate matter levels throughout the community. That data can be viewed here: NSFWair.org
The Research
- A&M Study
Advocacy Goals
- Develop leaders in the fight for EJ in their neighborhoods.
- Advocating for the deindustrialization and revitalization of our older Fort Worth Communities, while maintaining the communities character.
- Advocate for the passing of a Data Center Moratorium until the COmp Plan is completed.
- Fight to stop data centers from encroaching in our communities until the completion of the FOrt Worth 2050 Comprehensive Plan.
- Providing data driven proof of the disparity in health and life expectancy, the community is able to fight with real proof on their side.
Organizing Wins
- Participation in the 2050 comprehensive plan
- Investigations into smells in Northside
- Get the council to reduce the years of a CUP for FedEx from 5 to 2 years.
