The Tishman Environment and Design Center’s report “Local Policies for Environmental Justice: A National Scan,” written with support from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and commissioned by Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, Southeast Environmental Task Force, and Southeast Side Coalition to Ban Petcoke, details how community advocates and their allies transformed local zoning and local land use policies – historically tools for segregation and concentrating pollution in low-income communities and communities of color – into means for addressing the cumulative burdens borne by environmental justice communities.